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Tutorial 2: Setting local Django devlopment environment on linux mint

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I was introduced to Djnago some time ago, it was on amazon accessed using git. I did not set any local environment yet To make any change I would first edit it on my system then push to assembla git repo and then pull it on server and restart and if I made any silly mistake redo the same thing. So after 2-3 changes I got sick of it. There was a better solution that was hard to achieve in windows. So without wasting time I will list the steps and errors 1. Install any linux distro  (the one with which you are comfortable and have good software repo system), I am using mint which is ubuntu derivative 2. SOFTWARES from ubuntu repo sudo apt-get install python-django sudo apt-get install mysql-server sudo apt-get install mysql-python sudo apt-get install python-pip optional- sudo apt-get install python-dev sudo apt-get install phpmyadmin 3. pipy apps  If you have already been working on remote server you may have install some local applications like django-re...

Ideas 5: Python Course project Ideas

I am doing a course called " Software Development for Engineers and Scientists ". We have to come up with a product idea that involves at least 16 hours of coding or work in python or in shell. It would be around 2000 lines of code. The following are the Ideas that accumulated till now A mobile GUI Application/Game Road Fighter Black and white World A drawing application for my TA work A python based website with login functionality and mysql A python based web crawler/Data collector - but that would be too easy A simple text game would be too boring Another Idea: Game for Indian Student (to make similar to existing app given below)  Develop a game similar to http://www.travelpod.com/traveler-iq#embed for India specifically, to give general knowledge to childrens.