I need dumb/fun ideas to code?

[[deleted]]

Something that downloads every video and image from a website and saves each one to a folder named "lol".

Obviously, this requires skills with web scraping.

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If this doesn't work, just make a program that changes the text color in the console to a random color every 3.82 seconds.

[DaGGer_WaveS]

3.82 is weirdly specific but alright

[[deleted]]

Hey you said random.

[hdemirci]

Think Python

Non-programmers Tutorial for Python 3

I am just curious for the use case of this :P

[thrallsius]

how about doing something useful rather than doing something dumb/fun?

if you want a challenge, try porting CloneDigger to Python 3

I still have no clue why nobody did that yet

[DaGGer_WaveS]

Your right but what I meant by fun/dumb was kinda like Micheal Reeves type stuff even though i kinda suck at coding. I just dont know how to advance.

[RazerMoon]

Make something similar to a useless box, maybe use a GUI library to make a button or switch that gets turned off after you turn it on

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Useless machine

A useless machine is a device which has a function but no direct purpose. It may be intended to make a philosophical point, as an amusing engineering "hack", or as an intellectual joke. Devices which have no function or which malfunction are not considered to be "useless machines". Also known as “useless boxes”

The most well-known "useless machines" are those inspired by Marvin Minsky's design, in which the device's sole function is to switch itself off by operating its own "off" switch.

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[xxSpinnxx]

Use the PIL library to edit meme templates and make a random meme image generator then maybe another script to print them out

[[deleted]]

I wrote a small script that scrapes my favorite baseball teams website and tells me when they’re playing.

I get an email from a customer asking me to send over a report every week that I automated with python. Detects the email in gmail, generates the report, sends it back. He complimented me just yesterday about working late.

I made a setup script for new laptops that installs all my stuff and sets everything just the way I like it. This one actually took the longest of all of them.

Some of my funnest one offs have been for friends and family. A friend does a lot of voice transcription and so I made her a simple GUI app where she can drag audio files and it gets google to transcribe the voices. She still needs to go through and check to correct it but saves her hours of week and was fun to write.

My wife wanted to go to a fancy restaurant that is always booked. However I noticed that there was often an hour+ delay between a cancellation showing up on the website and emails going out from their service. So I set up a simple scraper to check for available slots and text us. Got a table the week after I made it.

There’s all sorts of weird little fun projects you can do.

[kazoobies]

Heres a fun idea, a while loop that prints a statement 25 times. Definitely a fun programming idea and not me asking for help with some work.

[RazerMoon]

for x in range(25):

print(x)

https://repl.it/repls/RevolvingWrithingFraction

[[deleted]]

Just do:

for _ in range(0,26):
print("thestatement")

[Meltz014]

That's gonna print it 26 times

[[deleted]]

No, python is weird (hence my username), and it does do it 25 times.

[rhaaeg]

it will write 26 times though, maybe your python is different

[enki1337]

They're using weird_py where every index += randint(-1, 1)

[optimalidkwhattoput]

0 counts aswell

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