First week. I've read the first 10 chapters of the first book (Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python). The process I've employed looks something like this:
1 - Copy the source code of the chapter's game.
2 - Read the chapter.
3 - Reverse Engineering (in this step I write a program that does the same, but I do not look into the book nor in it's source code).
This last step is my favourite. I've implemented the games "Guess", "Jokes", "Dragon Realm" and "Hangman". In my version of hangman I've made a few changes. For example, in my version the program reads the words from a file (instead of having them in the source code). You can download my version of the game here (remember that this game is heavily inspired in Al Sweigart's hangman).
I also set up Eclipse (the development environment) and installed the PyDev plugin that makes Eclipse able to work with Python. Setting up PyDev is a piece of cake. The only difficulty I found was configuring the Python interpreter in the environment. I used this tutorial for that purpose:
http://www.vogella.com/articles/Python/article.html
Finally, I used this program for the diagrams:
https://live.gnome.org/Dia/
Actually, I didn't need to do diagrams, but the book spends a whole chapter on it. I thought it was interesting to get used to flowcharts. In the future, I'll surely need to do them.
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