In an effort to maintain any kind of programming skills I may have, I decided it would be a good idea to start writing Python code again. This is another one of my phases I go through every year, so I’m not certain it will last. Luckily, I’ve found real world applications for learning and staying up to date with Python, so I’m going to try and dedicate some time to coding realistic projects — in the past most of what I worked on were games (which ended up making me distressed when they didn’t play well), or web facing projects such as a message board (a classic project I’ve tried to attempt in many languages).
Since i’m trying to dust off some cob webs and a sizeable knowledge gap, I decided a great place to start would be Reddit’s daily programmer subreddit. This week, I picked a project that interested me that sounds nice and easy: Scrabble word finder (Challenge #294). What my program does is take user input (what letters do they have, and what word do they want to make) and lets them know if its possible given the current amount of each letter. Super simple, but a nice entry for me to return to Python programming.
As of right now I’m at what I consider version 1.2 1.3 of this program – it can take your given letters and a desired word, tell you if its playable (including wildcards), and gives you the point value for that word (update: now it suggests the highest value word you can play with the given letters). Check my Github page for the project here. As of version 1.3 i’m going to consider this complete (outside of any bug fixes).
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