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# pytudes
"An *étude* (a French word meaning study) is an instrumental musical composition, usually short, of considerable difficulty, and designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill." — [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tude)
"An *étude* (a French word meaning *study*) is an instrumental musical composition, usually short, of considerable difficulty, and designed to provide practice material for perfecting a particular musical skill." — [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89tude)
This project contains **pytudes**—Python programs for perfecting programming skills.
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# Etudes for Programmers
I got the idea for the "etudes" part of the name from this [1978 book by Charles Wetherell](https://books.google.com/books/about/Etudes_for_programmers.html?id=u89WAAAAMAAJ)
that was very influential to me when I was learning to program around 1980.
that was very influential to me when I was learning to program.
![](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ZnZH29dvL._SX394_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg)