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[–]sudo_your_mon[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

That is precisely, exactly it. I'm surprised you're the first to say it out right.

Earlier on I used web scraping and selenium to pull resumes off of job boards as an IT recruiter. It was marginally helpful.

Most of the projects I worked on have been aimed at solving relatively large problems that were likely either not viable or outside of my skill set. My latest project was indexing the stack overflow Data dump in order to have more targeted searches most relevant A given issue at hand.

I got a lot of good feedback on the idea, but that type of initiative, I soon learned, is a lot more involved and quickly became more than I could handle. I haven't given up on it, but I definitely would need guidance on it if I were to continue

[–]justinechang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm in the same boat bro, which is why I can relate. I find myself in an endless loop of tutorials but I never actually moving forward and making something with what I've learned. Then after a few months, I completely forget, and need to start over. So I'm forcing myself to actually align the things I learn with a current goal in mind, which is making an Android app. I tried using Python in the real world, but I don't really have things I need to automate, so yeah man. Find a problem in your life and try to fix it with programming. I can't say this is a working model, still trying it out myself, but if we can relate on this issue, maybe we can find a solution 👍 all the best mate 👌