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I am a high school student, and I have just finished 4 free youtube courses on python, along with a "beginners guide to python" book, and I am a little lost. I understood the language quite well and enjoyed learning it. My question is: what do I have to learn in order for me to start designing and building things with python. Just to be clear, I am not talking about complicated things such as websites or machine learning applications. I am talking about simple games and apps so that I can form a better understanding of software development through practical experience. I honestly thought this is where the course and book would get me by now. I feel like my understanding of python is great (for a beginner). I understand all of the fundamental terms and definitions of the language, and I can answer questions other students may have about directories, methods, strings and so on without trouble. I just have no idea where to begin designing and building real things that can test my knowledge as a programmer.
I understand that I have a lot to learn. I just have no discernible vision as to how I can become better without practicing what I learn.
I am grateful for any advice you can provide on how I can resolve this issue, as well as any book recommendations or helpful links for learning resources.
Thank you for your time.

There are lots of fun ways! Try some of Swagart's books (Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, etc). By all means try making a basic web application with Flask. Try making a game with Pygame (Al Swagart's pygame book is good for that). Try interfacing a database directly with sqlite3. The possibilities are endless. Don't stick to just raw python, the best way to get experience is to use external modules and apply your knowledge to them. If you need to write Python for a job they will want you to be using something or other to do something or other and the only way to be able to say "Oh yes I can learn this module you're using for webdev/game/anything" is to have experience learning new modules and use cases.

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I'm new on the programming world using python, so i have some questions for desktop aplications development.
1. Im currently using pycharm as my idle, can i use it for my purpose?
2. Can i use peewee as my ORM and Tkinter for my GUI? or should i just use Tkinter?(Recommendations are welcome)
3. I'm planning to use Sqlite3 as my database, should i keep this idea?
My further plan is to make an application to store the networks equipments in an enterprise, like desktops, laptops, switches, etc.
And also get some reports like to wich user belongs a desktop or laptop, wich kind of license does the equip has, a bitacore to store all what happens to an equip, etc.
I'm very new on this world and have been reading, practicing and taking courses for 3 month by now to understand concepts, learn about programming, etc.
Tahnks for the tips.

If you know Tkinter then stick with it, otherwise consider a higher level framework like PyGUI, PySimpleGUI or QT (Arguably not that simple, but plays nicely with PyInstaller). You will definitely be able to keep using SQLite3, as there is an existing binding in python 2&3.
If you plan to deploy this app, then you need to consider if speed is going to be a problem. Python is great but fundamentally quite slow. You can use things like Cython or PyPy to speed it up, but this can get complicated when you look at using a packager such as py2exe or PyInstaller for distribution.
best of luck.

Starting with Python [closed]

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Just wondering what the best way to get started learning Python to do backend engineering is and what the best framework to learn for it is (Pyramid, DJango etc...). I have done algorithms in school, build iOS apps and know Java, Scala, OCaml (lol), Racket (lol) and Objective C. I currently have to use Parse for my apps but want to build backend engineering skills. I'm thinking I might as well do the code academy course but the ones I've done from them don't seem in depth enough. Maybe an Udemy course? I want to get good enough to get an internship in backend engineering next summer. Need to find the best resources to do that before then. Thanks!!

While that question is quite open-ended, I personally think using Pyramid right out of the gates was super helpful. One of the pillars of this project is documentation, and their ideology is that you pay for what you use, giving developers the ability to customize their web applications to a good extent. Check out the docs here http://docs.pylonsproject.org/en/latest/docs/pyramid.html!
They also have excellent tutorials that guide you through the traditional "Hello, world!" application, and also more advanced stuff, like how to work with sqlalchemy to utilize databases in your web applications. This is how I learned essentially all of what I know about the framework! I would definitely recommend this, especially if you are just looking to start out and get your feet wet. But, as I said, this is my own opinion, and am sure that there are others with differing opinions on the matter. Best of luck!

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From the official website there's only things like "hello world" and a todo-list. Apparently Pyramid doesn't seem to be mainstream enough to spawn sufficient example tutorials, and I'm the kind of person that finds it more efficient to learn by following various sample projects. I think my Google-fu is not strong enough...
I'm actually pretty much brand new to back-end in general, so it would be even more helpful if someone can show me a variety of small and practical tutorials of how a Python backend works with Pyramid, all the way from setting up the configuration accordingly, passing data back and forth from the client side, and how data from the backend is hooked to the frontend template.
Thanks!

There are official tutorials supported by the Pylons Project.
http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/#tutorials
http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid/en/latest/quick_tutorial/index.html
There are community contributed tutorials as well, where the list of them is officially curated by the Pylons Project, but the tutorials themselves may not be official.
http://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/pyramid-tutorials/en/latest/index.html#pyramid-tutorials

Pyramid projects:
Tutorias
Pyramid Bloggr tutorial: https://github.com/Pylons/pyramid_blogr
Heavy weight
Warehouse (the next generation Python package index in development): https://github.com/pypa/warehouse
Kotti CMS: https://github.com/Kotti/Kotti
Substance D CMS: http://www.substanced.net/

Building a financial app with Django [closed]

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I'm building an app for a small business so I've to work with currencies, decimal numbers, etc... My goal is to create something like pulseapp.com.
I've searched for opensource projects to look and the only thing I had found was django-cashflow. This app uses python-money.
I've read some of the code and the ways it's coded seems a bit weird to me and it's not fully complete.
Is the app worth to take a deep look?
Does anyone know about another similar app?
Is the task difficult or a begginer like me could find a way to code it himself?

If you're dealing with currencies, you might look to satchmo's codebase. http://www.satchmoproject.com/ They're the current front-runner in Django e-commerce. I'm sure they have money modules.

Here you have something you might be interested:
Tryton with Django

I started to use python-money in an application a couple years ago, but had to abandon it due to some problem. I apologize for forgetting the exact problem, but I do remember for our use case it didn't make sense anyway... we just needed decimal fields.
I'd also be wary of django-cashflow not having any activity for 2 years, although the project is small enough it should be easy enough to fix any problems yourself.
For existing Django accounting apps I would suggest enhancing, or at least looking at, minibooks. NOTE: the license is AGPL v3 which could make it unusable for your environment.
Another road to travel would be to investigate porting OpenERP (also GPL IIRC) from Python/GTK to Django. Tryton might also be a starting point, it's GPL3 and IIRC a fork of OpenERP.

I've written a framework to help speed up the development of customised commerce aspects of django sites: Rollyourown shopping.
It lets your write your models yourself, and uses a declarative syntax to define a summary class, which handles calculating totals, caching and formatting values etc. It's pretty fast for my use cases, and very flexible: I've used it for online stores, billing for consulting-services and auction sites :-)
The current version works fine, but I'll be releasing a '1.0' version later this month as I decide on the final (stable) API details (names etc) and maybe some external reviews.