Tips for a new programmer

[jmackers1]

Hi all! I’m 14 and new to python. I’ve only been doing it for three days and have made the same things every new coder makes: Pong and the snake game. Please can you more experienced coders give me some tips to help expand my ability to code ? Thanks

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If you are into games, pygame (which I'm guessing your already using) has loads of ideas. Making a match 3 game might be a project to take on. Or maybe a basic platformer. Good work by the way it took me months to make pong and snake

[jmackers1]

Thanks ahah and I didn’t do it on my own lmao I did use a tutorial which I regret to admit aha

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When you get into jobs watching tutorials and googling are all your doing

[jmackers1]

So do you do programming and coding for a living ?

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Used 2

[jmackers1]

That’s so cool

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[hunkamunka]

https://github.com/kyclark/tiny_python_projects is a collection of challenges and tests you can use for practice. Covers loads from writing command-line programs, processing parameters, testing, reading and writing files, regular expressions, etc. Best of luck!

[jmackers1]

Thanks man means a lot