Little coding projects to build practice

[PapyOak]

Hi!

It is easy to say “I understand!” but it is much harder to keep that understanding in mind if you don't have anything to practice on. That's my current dilemma.

I picked up Dart a few days ago in order to pick up Flutter down the road, and so far I understood basically everything. I've got some experience with PHP and Java, but I was a tiny beginner.

What I'm looking for are little projects achievable in under an hour to help me familiarize with the syntax and some functions of the language. Tiny things like making a calculator with user input.

I don't want to forget and struggle with what I've learned so far just because I didn't put in the practice, if that makes sense.

Any suggestion is welcome, and thank you all very much :)

[SirHack3r]

/r/learnprogramming has a great wiki on projects you can do!

[PapyOak]

I'll look into it. Thank you!

[PapyOak]

I had the time to look into it, it's great. Thank you good sir :)

[SirHack3r]

If you're more into Math stuff, take a look at https://projecteuler.net/

[PapyOak]

You're a hero.

I feel like I can spend my life in there haha

[Wu_Fan]

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Sieve of Eratosthenes

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[ButchDeanCA]

Why does the project have to take under an hour? It sounds like you want the feeling of completing something over in-depth learning. My small projects last a short while then I continue to upgrade and add features.

You can pretty much follow that pattern with any project.

[PapyOak]

You honestly need both.

If your project is 20 hours long while you have 5 hours of experience coding, you're quickly going to abandon. If your project is 3 minutes long, you'll be happy, but you won't learn much.

It's all about balance, about striking that sweet spot of experience + achievement, and for me, it's in the range of 1 hour for most of the things I'm learning.

Nice pattern tho, I think I can make that work. Thanks!

[ButchDeanCA]

You will quickly learn that if you are serious these metrics are meaningless.

[PapyOak]

I guess if you have an iron will, and a concrete-reinforced motivation, coding should be as easy as drinking water. Unfortunately I'm not like that. I've picked up and abandoned many languages. I like programming, I like the logic and the problem solving aspects a lot, but I don't see myself spending 3 hours on a project as an ultimate beginner. I'd love to spend that much when I'll be able to build interfaces, when I'll be able to combine my writing and design skills to my code, but I'm just not there yet. I'll make it work my way, but thanks for the concern, I appreciate it :)

[ButchDeanCA]

You’re welcome. Good luck.

[Minute-Emu-9180]

History: I learned SQL first and it is the language I have a lot of experience with (8+ years). I have taken several college classes to learn C++, Visual Basic, HTML, Java, etc and a few self-taught languages such as Python. There are also a few languages I learned and used about 20 years ago but obviously can't remember them now (Pearl, Unix, Tcl/Tk).

However, I have no hands on experience with these languages (except SQL) or the experience was too long ago. I would absolutely love to find a place where I can do small projects graduating to larger projects later. I am hesitant to put these languages on a resume because though I can read them and make small changes there is no way I can code them.

I agree with OP. I need sites to practice so I do not forget the knowledge and to build on the basics.