Chapter 12. Where to from here?

If you’ve gotten to this point in the book, you’ve learned several different Python programs in a number of different styles. We started out with a straightforward program in chapter 2, when you wrote Hunt the Wumpus. Since then, we’ve covered libraries, classes, event-based programs, and interacting with the web. You could think of Hello! Python as a tasting plate, letting you try different styles of Python programming before you delve too deeply into one particular topic.

Although we’ve covered a lot of ground in this book, we’ve only scratched the surface of what you can do with Python. This chapter is intended as a springboard for the next stage of your development as a programmer.

Read some more code

One of the best ways to learn how to write better programs is to look at how other people have written their programs and figure out what they’ve done and why. There’s something of an art to reading other people’s code—experience definitely helps.

Join the Python community

Scratch your own itch

Look at more Python libraries

Summary