Coding challenges

Aside from all of the neat things that you can do with Python code, you can practice coding Python by finding coding challenges and completing them alone or with friends. These challenges range from being short to long, easy to difficult, and are a great way to keep your skills sharp between projects. The coding challenges usually aim at one specific coding skill each, as follows:

  • Printing
  • Iterating over loops
  • Creating variables, strings, and integers
  • Data management
  • Functions
  • if/elif/else
  • Nested if/elif/else
  • Nested logic
  • Recursing

If you don't feel totally comfortable with these terms, look them up, read more about them, and try some of the coding challenges to strengthen your skills. Here are some websites that have coding challenges ...

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