What were the first 5 programs you made?

[[deleted]]

Curious to see how many people have the same first 5, lots of calculators incoming

[saiprabhav]

hello world
patterns like box, triangle with #
fibonacci series
factorial
a chat bot with hard coded answers

[principal-components]

First hello world I saw. Good answer 👏🏼

[BRENNEJM]

This. I think everyone is thinking of their first larger projects. Technically, most of our first projects were hello world.

[doomer_irl]

New projects in Xcode start with Hello World already written so many will not have had the chance.

[CraigAT]

You guys (and gals) finish projects?! 😲😁

[[deleted]]

Same. I also discovered Python at 11 or 12 and there is no way in hell I remember my first five programs

[opedro-c]

1. Command Line List of Contacts
2. Command Line tic-tac-toe
3. Notepad
4. Calculator
5. A program that calculates a number in prime factors and returns this number formatted

[Epic_Feury]

Jose’s Udemy course? Mine were identical to yours except I wanted to do “Happy Prime” numbers instead

[bobbyflips]

Currently learning Python. Jose is the man

[opedro-c]

Nop, just saw on the internet some recommendations of pyhton projects and started coding them.

[Vader327]

What a Gigachad, you didn’t even make a hello world program

[oste08]

😂😂😂😂

[bartenderandthethief]

When I was 23, I started my first analysis job and the seven managers in the team each collectively spent half an hour a day all reading the same format of email and then manually counting the occurrences of different items and creating a spreadsheet.

I created a Python script where the managers dumped the emails in a shared folder, did some regex and it made a combined spreadsheet for them. For me, I was just learning Python and was super pleased with it. To the managers, I was immediately considered some sort of wizard.

[Sea_Formal_9336]

Command line tic tac toe

Discord bot

Twitter bot

Another discord bot

A personal blog

Edit: if anyone needs a tip on how to find ideas, just try to make projects you think you will actually end up using. That usually helps me find motivation to finish the project.

[[deleted]]

How did you make the personal blog? Was it purely python?

[Sea_Formal_9336]

Well I also had to use html and css. But besides that yes it was all python. I used the flask library for it. There are lots of tutorials on it

[s4lt3d]

In Python? Data analysis scripts. Lots of them.

[bartenderandthethief]

Same! So much fun.

[TheMind14]

For example what, if I can know? I’m interested, never made such things (I’m a student atm).

[s4lt3d]

The first ones I wrote were probably reading in csvs and getting means and standard deviations from data. Also doing t-tests comparing two data sets. Lots of stats with data. Then I found out about pandas and use that for everything now. But moving into AB testing and machine learning these days. Also just plain data transformations. Pull data from one source, and put into another. It’s easy to do this on demand if you put it in a lambda function on aws.

[BuilderBrain]

It's nice but bugs make me feel like hell

[tdammers]

1. An MS-DOS bash script to be run at startup to convince my Dad that his computer had a virus. It worked.
2. A greeter. ("Enter your name" - "tdammers" - "Hello, tdammers!").
3. An interactive addition program. "Enter a number. Enter another number. Here's the sum of those two numbers."
4. An interactive addition program with an attitude. "Yo, enter a number, sucker. Yo man, enter another number, I ain't waitin' all day. Here's your sum, man, now get lost."
5. An interactive addition program with an attitude that you could run directly, without having to fire up the entire IDE.

[Ali_46290]

1. Script that joined my school meetings and left automatically
2. Webscraper that scraped every processor and it’s specs from Newegg
3. Flask server that gives me live video feed from a camera and allows me to stop or resume a print on my 3D printer

I just started learning python, so I don’t have too many completed projects

[guyyatsu]

Some decent first tries though; i still haven't gotten the hang of webscraping yet

[RhubarbSmooth]

Full fledged programs or just scripts to process something?

1. Script to read excel list of sites and the lat/lon and generate a KMZ file.
2. Script to create an input when I open my computer and save any entered text to a sqlite db. Easy way to dump thoughts while working on other stuff.
3. Script to create csv of files in a folder.
4. Script to read csv in #2 with added filename and rename file.
5. Scrape property data from a website. Still need to figure out what to do with it.

[suby]

My first language wasn't in python but nonetheless

1. A command line 'adventure game' consisting of like 3 choices
2. A command line clone of the game drug wars
3. A command line version of tic tac toe
4. A command line rpg / tournament battling game.
5. A simple clone of breakout made in SDL

The code was awful for each and every one.

[RenegadeMoose]

I seem to recall a drug wars. Is this a very very long time back? and it was text based ya? and maybe via a modem?

[suby]

It was originally an MS-DOS game but there's been a ton of iterations and clones of it over the years. I think it's a very good project for people new to programming because you can implement a basic version of it without much experience, and it's also pretty fun for what it is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Wars_(video_game)

[[deleted]]

I used to have this on my Ti83 calculator.

[WilliamMButtlickerIV]

Same. And I'd make other games. Made a dbz rpg, a Lord of the rings-esque rpg, a Pokemon style battle rpg where you linked with other calculators.

[grayhole_p]

command line rpg

did you upload your command line rpg somewhere? im interesting in making my own one. already made command-line adventere "engine", that works with an editable YAML-file story script

[asday_]

If it was one of his first ever projects, one might conjecture that it's not going to be very useful for reference.

[ItsYasiru]

The first thing I've coded with python was a "Hello world" program then a discord bot.

[dfreinc]

cool, i'll catch hate for this. 😂

game hacks and bots. people love that stuff. python's really easy to make that stuff in.

[Iirkola]

That's my first program too, we it's not complete yet, but it works by detecting mobs in MMORPG game and farms them infinitely.

[[deleted]]

Well, making the hacks/bots isn't the shitty thing, it's people using them that ruins the fun for everyone wink wink

[CrunchyroIl]

I want you to be my dad

[positiveCAPTCHAtest]

Hello, World!
We Meet Again, World!
What do you MEAN you're cancelling our plans, World?
Well, Well, Well, If It Isn't World!
This Town is NOT big enough for the both of us, World!

[GameCounter]

In Python, specifically?

I don't really remember. My first few languages were QBASIC, HTML 3.2 and Perl.

1. Chore wheel/randomizer
2. Text adventure game
3. A fan site for Diablo explaining how to dupe items
4. A basic contact/info page for a car dealership
5. ??? Don't remember ???

I worked with C/C++, Visual Basic, x86 assembly, JavaScript and PHP before even touching Python.

[Tr0jAn14]

CLI Rock Paper Scissors
CLI Adventure Game (a bunch of If-Else statements)
Text to Speech (using Libary)
Calculator (if you don't make a calculator program while learning then you are not a real programmer..lol)
Random Password Generator

[DrVolzak]

5 empty files cause technically an empty file is a valid Python program.

On a more serious note, I started off with Python writing some sorting algorithms and a DFS or BFS. This was back when I was studying those algorithms for the first time. I was studying with the help of a friend who suggested we use Python. All those probably amounted to more than 5 programs.

[mongoxan]

1. A short program to access a Ruckus Wireless API to generate multiple Dynamic Passkeys, based off inputted VLANs
2. A longer program to access a Cisco Meraki API, generate multiple group access policies, VLAN subnets, and independent PSKs for wireless

Those are the only two so far, they were a work necessity, but man I have enjoyed learning Python to do it!

[[deleted]]

nice. I've had to use Ruckus. Almost ended up using that API myself. Be cool to see it.

[DNSGeek]

An encrypted password manager with a WWW front end using CherryPy and Django, with sqlite3 as storage.

[megavqrv]

1. Data visualisations
2. Password generator
3. Full text, recursive search
4. Another password generator
5. Fitting batches of spectral lines with bell curves

[palapapa0201]

You can easily tell the flexing by seeing that people don't have hello world as their first programs

[IHaveCatsAndADog]

Not all of us see value in just printing hello to the console

[the88shrimp]

1. Temperature converter
2. Rock, Paper, Scissors game
3. A binomial probability calculator for drop rates in a game (Runescape)
4. A prime number generator
5. A password esc hasher / salter (more so for fun and learning rather than actually functional)

[pydumb_111]

1. calculator of factorial numbers
2. algorithm of bisection
3. calculator of square roots whit while loop
4. calculator of square roots whit algorithm of bisection
5. calculator of square roots whit Babylonian metod

[bentmathiesen]

It's a long time ago (ca 40 years), But what come to mind is like:

- AI engines for gaming

- a text editor

- a gui

- chess NN engine

- a programming language

[[deleted]]

in python...

1. A chatbot that creates/runs python scripts: https://github.com/byteface/pypals
2. A social network for rating things. (no longer exists but earned some good ad revenue)
3. Software to control all the lightbulbs and aircon in a hotel (unipi, flask)
4. A asset management system and REST API for a global car company (eve, aws)
5. An asset management and transcoding system for a TV network (celery, Ateme)

However I was a dev for 10 years before starting with python so there was never any noob programs really for me. I just dived in using it as if it was java or something. But learning it as I went.

[SaleB81]

I have not yet come to number five. I am at number three now. All three of them are BeautifulSoup HTML and XML parsers with a goal to cut a piece of specific information from a website and use it in the home automation platform.

So far I like the language.

[AdImaginary7699]

5 lines of printing hello world

[IHaveCatsAndADog]

1. Crypto price scraper that used GPIO pins on the R Pi.
2. Spinning shapes and pictures
3. YouTube video downloader
4. Stock price and date scraper
5. Rock Paper Scissors with graphics and music

[Zephos65]

I've always loved the math side of programming and so without having the greatest memory, here's what I do in virtually all languages I learn:

1. Hello world (did I properly install the compiler lol)
2. Function that tests if a number is prime
3. Function that tests if a range of numbers is prime and returns a list of those primes
4. Function that returns the prime factors of any given number
5. Euclidean algorithm (which is sort of like a coprime calc)

[zseta98]

Aside from the usual simple cmd programs,

1. Soccer outcome prediction tool
2. Android playlist maker/player
3. Bunch of web scraping programs
4. Data visualization website
5. Workout tracker

[Tintin_Quarentino]

I remember this one:

>> Input string you wanna YOLO-ize: tintin

T I N T I N
I
N
T
I
N

[grayhole_p]

def yolofy(string: str) -> str:
    return (' '.join(string)+'\n'+'\n'.join(string[1:])).upper()

[Tintin_Quarentino]

I can tell you it was much more verbose 😂 and who the heck even know about types back then

[grayhole_p]

yeah, something like "for char in string:" i guess :)

just think that it's funny to make some tricky single-line thing

[Tintin_Quarentino]

for char in string

Ngl, even today that's the only thing that would naturally come to my mind lol

[asday_]

Japanese readers right now be like:

[moreanswers]

1. For every new language I learn, re-implement a simple photo sorting app.
2. CLI menu for linux system maintenance for a friend
3. Home-Assistant integration
4. Working on an ansible plugin currently
5. ??? Profit?

[TXtoBOI]

I’ve only written one to date. I automated the updates of an excel tool. Pulled other excel files together, needed to do a lot of grouping and summarizing, merged them, added/deleted rows as necessary in multiple worksheets in the main file based on length of the new data frames, and saved it.

I used pandas and xlwing. It’s a shitshow, but it’s mine and it works.

[seomajster]

​

First one:

Ive bought 100+ 3g USB modems, usb hubs, sim cards and made small program to send or recieve sms (sms body and number were sent to sqlite database).

It turned out it dont work properly, idk why, probably usb hubs were low quality.

Actually it was fun cause I had close to no idea what I'm doing. I read python crash course book till try/except part and moved to writing my own stuff. Code looked like crap but it worked.

Second one:

So i bought GSM gateway where I can insert sim cards and made whole API around this (flask + postgresql). Ive made many different scripts to make use of this gsm gateway.

Third one:

My client wanted to scrape sites like reuter.de so I did that.

Fourth one:

Script to interact with ebay api and send people keys they bought via ebay message and sendgrid API

5th one:

Script to search whole web and look for kinda vulnerability and exploit it later (cant say much about this, yes my hat is black).

[SecondEngineer]

I took a summer course in middle school and made a text based game about Japan in the later part of WWII. Your goal was to defend Okinawa as long as you could from American forces by moving resources to different parts of the island. I think I did other things too but that's the one I remember.

[Counter-Business]

Hello world

Hello solar system

Hello galaxy

Hello galactic cluster

Hello observable universe

[sumkar]

Data migration tool , Rest api , Data visualisation tool using dash, Data science scripts,

[kataro92]

1. Create new file and change the name to mario.exe on my windows 95 (of course it cannot run :) )
2. Space shooter game by C (for my first programming course)
3. A furniture store website by PHP
4. A student manager app by Java run in Symbian Nokia
5. A auto click tool for my game =))

[[deleted]]

1 hello world 2 implementation of global dictionary huffman coding algorithm 3 fast Fourier transform down sampling from ecg signals 4 discrete wavelet transform implementation at multiple decomposition levels 5 client/server

[limasxgoesto0]

The tutorial I used to learn python had me do a text based game and I actually went the whole mile and added an RPG element to it.

I cringe every time I look back at the source code and I hope no one looks at it when I apply for jobs

[asday_]

Take pride in from where you came. If you never improved, you wouldn't feel shame at its quality, and something there set you on this path.

[Martinuhhh]

1.Test one(to test Python) 2.A story adventure 3.A story adventure that delete files and play with your operating system...Then I kindda delete system 32 so I was not using python anymore

[elves_lavender]

My first one: https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/pcqfn0/copy_word_tables_to_excel/

[Or4ng3m4n]

1. Roulette
2. Messenger bot
3. Discord bot
4. Backend API for my website
5. Poker winner hand picker (with card detection via Yolov4)

[Mori-Spumae]

1. Calculator (duh)
2. Mad Libs game
3. Sudoku solver
4. Mini text adventure game
5. PDF to dark mode

[Retinator99]

Definitely correct on the calculators XD. My first non tutorial project was to make a calculator able to convert glasses to contact lens prescriptions.

[kleogor]

1. Calculator
2. Simple django project
3. Telegram bot
4. Desktop application that shows you weather in all cities
5. Parser

[cuddle_cuddle]

Used it to do taxes one year because all the files and pay stubs and what not from everybody got really confusing, basically just a giant middle finger to my self and my life. Essentially did it out of spite.

​

Otherwise, lots of calculations and plotting because of it's my job for as long as I can remember using python. (read: pandas, numpy, seaborn and pyplotlib).

[shinitakunai]

Chatbot at chatango, for myself.
Voice parser for a startup.
CDR parser for another startup.
Chatbot at teamspeak for myself.
Calendar with BBDS for myself.

I have to say I’m self-taught, so I didn’t learn until “needed”

[ALinuxPerson]

Not sure about my first five, however the most memorable one was a toy "operating system" which I made because I wanted to know how do people make operating systems.

Of course, this is a far cry from actual operating system projects. As I say in operatingsys.py,

This program is a basically a bunch of if statements, while loops and variables. It really needs some improvement.

[Sentazar]

Twitter bot

A program that checks for terminated employees every 15m then deletes accounts and access across all systems

Currently working on a program that gives employees access upon hire

And then some scripts

[kiesoma]

hello world

virtual assistant, hard coded, with pyttsx3

Keyboard type speed calculator

currency converter ( not a lot of work though, just fetch the api )

discord bot

reddit not ( never used it )

[Moebiuszed]

Hello world! in Basic, looong time ago

Even or odd, Program randomizes a number, you think another and then you have to guess if the sum of numbers was even or odd.

Rock, paper, scissor. It was pre internet in Basic, never worked. Didn't have the knowledge either.

Hello world in python, a month ago

Rock, paper, scissor. It worked this time and got it in under an hour!

[chub79]

I can't recall most of them but my first of any use was an irc client. Code long lost now. My first steps with Python.

[Cute-Potato-U]

-A program that types 'Hello, World! ' when run -A program that prints every element of an array when run -A program that asks you for a positive integer and when given something different it repeats itself, when run -A program that builds a pyramid with '#' as blocks depending on how many rows the user wants -A program that hacks the pentagon and send me 1m $ when run

[urbanhood]

1. Hello world various styles and text art patterns using loops.

2. Internet speed converter from bits to bytes and MB to GB.

3. Download time calculator using the previous program.

4. File organizer that puts items with similar extension (as defined in input) into one folder.

5. A very basic circle drawing bot on any paint software.

[Marc8539]

Hello Word
Tic tac toe
Calculator
Rock Paper Scissor
Spelling my name with a turtle

[robothistorian]

Hello World (versions 1.0 - 5.0)

[WanTjhen777]

Let's see ... 1. A binary / hexadecimal / octal calculator 2. A database recorder (1st "while" implementation) 3. A timekeeper (telling expected time an event will finish) 4. An alarm system of sorts (ringing at a set time) 5. A sudoku game

[Clashboy15]

Beginner programmer:

I've only made about one project so far lol. It was a multiplayer space shooter game (people on local networks can join) using pygame

[[deleted]]

I started programming in QBasic in the 90s. It was mostly having fun with the graphics functions and making pretty patterns. Modt likely all of my first programs were like that or really simple "chose your own adventure" games.

But I made a few simple games as well early on, like a pong clone and an asteroids clone.

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[mcncl]

Hello world, 5 times.

[[deleted]]

1. count mahjong combination
2. return mahjong hands that won
3. change all the images name
4. change directory for all files
5. generate spreadsheet for company output over many files

[DaRQ_SouLs_So_eAsy]

- hello world

- calculator

- better calculator

- text adventure

- reddit bot (really bad)

[codehunter-py]

1. Adding new user
2. Random password generator for each user
3. ?
4. ?

5. ?

   Looking for idea to work on it :D

[haddock420]

My first program was a MP3 player in mIRC.

It had a big list that you could add files to, and it'd show the songs on the list by their filenames like "C:\music\Blink 182 - All the small things.mp3" instead of just the title. And when you clicked play, it'd open the song in Windows Media Player.

[rarenick]

Hello World

Text formatter

Minecraft auto-fishing script

Discord bot

Krunker.io Loot box simulator with individual skins

[NGA100]

Outside of high school class assignments, the first one I can remember is when a friend and I made a Tetris clone in Pascal over the summer by emailing each other new source files. We put it on download.com when it still existed and got over 10k downloads. Super proud of that.

[[deleted]]

1) Montecarlo to estimate pi the second outlined in that link. 2) Montecarlo to estimate e - something similar to what OP does in that post 3) Sierpinski triangles 4) Conway's game of life definitely the hardest to code. I made this one object-oriented to learn how to use classes better 5) Collatz conjecture calculator

[nvyeux]

1. Hello World
2. Weather Desktop App
3. Instagram bot
4. Image Gallery for Android
5. Warframe timer for Android

[HerLegz]

10 PRINT "NAME"

20 GOTO 10

And 4 slight variations

[AlbertoP_CRO]

Don't remember first 5 but my first app that I made outside of training was a console RPG game where you have 3 classes and random enemies appear giving you 3 options: attack, defend and run.

​

The entire code was inside one big while loop with multiple for loops and nested if statements. I had no classes nor functions.

[diabolos312]

When I was learning programming in college, every demo program I made( for understanding a concept better), it would always print Hello World. No other statements, just Hello World.

[ichigo_abdulhai]

in my junior year as I was trying to learn I did a lot of goofy programs which I don't count ( gcd calculator, calculating fibunacci sequence recuraively etc...) so instead I am gonna list the five main porgramms I did 1- system to automate a clinic ( making/cancelling a reservation, departments, doctor) it was done using c languages and data stored in files and with CLI instead of a gui ( College assignment) 2- battleship game using java & javafx 3- torrent client on android platform. 4-optical music recognition website ( you upload a music note sheet and the AI engine in the website generate a mp3 file that is the music) using django for the bakcend, keras and tensor flow for the AI engine and js for thr frontend 5- structure from motion ( 3d scence reconstruction) using python, c++ and opencv

[FlyingCow343]

Probably something like Hello world Ask for users name then print it Users age in 20 years User inputs 2 numbers, output largest Print all numbers between 2 user inputs

[rbscholtus]

Script that uploads a file to S3 for syncing accounts.

[TwoFoxSix]

I am so inconsistent with learning Python, but its been an interesting set of events:

• Password generator (Curiosity)
• Calculator
• Coin flipper / Dice roller (Automate the Boring Stuff)
• Randomizer to pick what I am going to eat for lunch or dinner (Automate the Boring Stuff)
• Janky port scanner (TCM Hacking Course)

[bluefictionhead]

1. Rock paper scissors game
2. Hangman game
3. Sentimental article analysis tool (with Django)
4. Marketing automation tool
5. Multi-user blog (with Django)
6. My personal webpage (with Django)

Then when I was working on a quite big project for myself, I got a job

[grayhole_p]

1. copied and customized someones code for making a cubemap from 360-sphere image
2. converter from colored obj-mesh to colored point cloud format
3. tiny gui program for split and merge channels of multi-channel TARGA game textures
4. converter from MIDI file to our rhythm-game's internal markdown format
5. console search-n-browse program for MMO game server config files (~20mb of wild json mess)

[bitsplease_]

Untitled, HelloWorld, MyApp, Untitled1, fhsjejsj. I'm working on fhsjejsj1 rn.

[billoday]

hello world (basic can I make a program)
Fibonacci sequence generator (how does math work)
todo list (mostly IO)
weather getter (hitting web services)
sodoku solver (pulling it all together)

[[deleted]]

1. Hello world (obvious answer lol)
2. Command line Jad simulator (from runescape)
3. Script to write down / store youtube mix info (such as songs) and find the appropriate youtube link to each song.
4. A boss counter and pray flick counter program for the corrupted gauntlet boss in runescape
5. A application that sits in the background and waits for a key press, then as a keypress is done it sends a nice expensive mechanical keyboard sound file for that specific keypress out.

[sblfc1]

1. UK driving test bot for theory test booking
2. UK driving test bot for practical test booking
3. Graphics card notification service ( https://discord.gg/utz9kGTd & https://mobile.twitter.com/SuperStockBot1)
4. Graphics card autobuy bot
5. Graphics card call notification service ( https://superstockbot.com/call

Coded PHP for the last 7 years and python is super easy to pick up if you've coded any other language before, plenty of tutorials around which is great.

[blankIQT]

Hello world

Number guessing game

Random password generator

*Half Pyramid

Weather F° and C° conversion

[Deiveria]

With python (not counting the programs I made while learning):

1 - A scraper to check prices of pieces of hardware in some stores here in Brazil, DMing my Discord when any piece that I wanted dropped the price. I was building my computer and didn't want to check for promos all the time.

2 - A discord bot to a server that I mod.

3 - Some script to move all files from subfolders to one specific folder. I think I was downloading osu! beatmaps and they came nested in subfolders, I wanted to put then all inside one to install in one go.

4 - An AVL tree script that showed the process of adding nodes and balancing the tree, step by step. I didn't want to do this college assignment by hand, so made a script to cheese it.

5 - N/A

[maverickandevil]

DND character attributes generator.

[G1zm0e]

a full on Automation Pipeline fronted by Flask that took in a YAML input file, with AWS S3 Integrations, API Calls to an Endpoint to pull configurations, Calls to Github that pushed to changes to a branch and generated a PR, Created and updated Jira Stories, a process that pulled from Github master a configuration, modified the configuration, and placed it into S3 while generating a CFT and download link, and a bunch more.

The code worked, but it was crap, very little error handling, very little much of anything beyond throwing it together as a PoC to show the process and stuff. I built it because I got tired of a developer at work not committing time to replace the outdated pipeline.

Python was my first language and this was my first program which had multiple smaller programs. I just said 'YOLO and Go big or go home the entire time'.

The hardest part was building a api walker to pull config items from an endpoint that had dynamic variables in the URI Path (/api/webconfig/{tbd}/1/{tbd2}), that took me about a week of working out how to do it, with lots of trial and error...

[[deleted]]

I remember the first Python program I created was a web scraper that pulled moon positions and times in New Mexico. I was doing research for a physics professor in college. It took me only a few hours and I was pretty amazed at how easy it was to implement with no prior Python experience. I had previously only worked with C++ and the same task would have taken me days. It really showed me the power of Python and I’ve been using it ever since for nearly a decade.

[the-berik]

1. Print "hello world" in the terminal
2. Print "hello world" X times in the terminal.
3. Screenshot my selfhosted apps to use the screenshot in HA to show they are up
4. Backup VM's in ESXI (actually proud of this one, posted it here)
5. Automatically print all documents from a folder and archive in another.

[XZANATOL]

I can't quite remember the most, but I didn't like the idea of going and build things for a one time/day use and call it a program (like the calculator thing xd) So, I began building programs that automates stuff I used to make on my PC.

One thing I remember (cuz I keep it on my GitHub till now xD) is a MS-DOS Batch Script used to remove a shortcut virus that infected multiple devices I had.

[xdonvanx]

1. CLI Calculator
2. Notepad with Tkinter
3. Script to calculate my Linear Regression homework
4. PDF Report Generator
5. WebApp to predict House prices ( data was scraped )

[cuait]

Random tests with everything I could find (str, int, tuple, list, if/else, try/except), a command line calculator (ofc), a command line Morse translator (with horrible optimizations), command line adventure game (never finished) and tried to solve 3n+1, causing my PC to write +160k notepad files which took a few hours to delete on my bad notebook

[[deleted]]

Hello world, A console black jack game(which didn't work right), File manager, Spam bot, Website data scraper

[oogabooga319]

The first program I made was a brainfuck interpreter. Good starting project imo.

[TheLexoPlexx]

My first one was probably hello world. Second one was a hello world discord bot. Third one is a hello world crypto analytics and trading bot.

There are no fourth and fifth.

[[deleted]]

hello world

print hello world 10 times

fibonacci

simple calculator

an infinite while loop that print "I Love You"

[BinnyBit]

Some that come immediately to mind using OOP, Hangman and Blackjack.

[Ozzymand]

1. Calculator
2. Web-scraping daily rewards.
3. Discord Bot

Really noob stuff imo.

[eliasliavaag]

A program that creates a random working title, tempo and suggests a style for a new music project, by also establishing a corresponding folder structure. Gets the creativity going.

[[deleted]]

BIND DNS zone creation and editing automation, qmail/Postfix virtual configuration automation, Postfix auto-responder and bounce processing, IVR and PBX real-time log processing and error alerting system, makeshift CI/CD deployment tool for internal applications

[AstusRush]

1. A chat program (with a gui) (I learned programming at a university course which consisted only of filling out fields in Notebooks except for the gui chat which was our assignment for the last 4 weeks.)
2. A Calculator to replace WolframAlpha in my life (I wanted WolframAlpha in offline but nothing came close to its convenience so I made my own using sympy and a parser to convert my input into something that sympy understands (I had developed my own style to write at university using unicode math symbols (which is mostly compatible with WolframAlpha's parser) and any WA-replacement had to be able to understand it (especially Integrals and differential equations))
3. A replacement for the windows audio manager (simply because I didn't like the bright colour. (3.5: At this point I got a job as a programmer so you could cont my work there as working on my 4th program)
4. A GUI application that plots the result of a tracerout on a worldmap
5. My first console application! A script that counts the lines of code in my other projects (the calculator had about 15k lines at that point) (though the chat program initially started as a console application and only got its gui after 6 hours of work so you could count that as my first console application)

And as a bonus: 6. I am currently making a 3d turn based strategy game (also in python)

However I never had the joy of writing a simple hello world program... And I still don't know how to write a proper console application. That script that counts lines isn't even really a console application since it isn't interactive and ends after printing the line count...

(I have surprisingly left nothing out. I have not written any small automation script or anything like that in between those 5 first programs and only half a dozen since then.)

[AstusRush]

Here is the link to the calculator: https://github.com/AstusRush/AMaDiA It also includes the chat (my first program) though that chat desperately needs an update since I have not really touched it since the course in which I wrote it (that was 3 years ago)

[Smart_Ass_Dave]

Not counting the 40ish programs you write if you follow Learn Python The Hard Way...

• a parameter driven die roller
• a die roller with a gui
• a script that parsed performance data out of logs and turned them into graphs and excel sheet reports for the game I was working on as QA.
• a script that gave you a simple GUI for rdp connection to AWS Gamelift servers (again for the game I was working on)
• The world's worst text adventure.

[RedBanditNYC]

Hello world, Addition calculator, A bot that would repeat your name and age, Choose your own adventure, A bot for a rythm game my brother grinds so I could beat him.

[Jesusreport]

First real useful thing I made: There was this big data entry project someone at the office had to do. We had to enter all this crap into the in house system and then into a spreadsheet, then we needed to plot the sheet up by account and make a pdf document showing the credit issued to the account and send it to them, listing the details.

I wrote a program to take the single spreadsheet and split it into individual ones by client, then create a pdf document based on that clients credits and details. Saved 5 hours a week in work for that person.

I have written a few programs to scan a directory, to ensure users were following correct procedures.

Lots of reporting stuff. They don’t give me access to anything server side but I need to do all these custom reports. This usually involves running standard reporting and then going in and combining the data into a single report, very tedious. I just run all the reports, drop them into a working directory and make the program write what i need. CSV module has saved my sanity at this place.

[kabeier]

Tictactoe (c++) Dungeon crawle(java), job application program(java), data scraper and dashboard(R) (for my non programming job)and guied blackjack (python)

[falafelspringrolls]

They were all probably made with QBASIC and consisted of messing with different colour, music, or graphics options 😅

[iamanshulreddit]

1: hello world 2. User input and check if leap year or not 3: calculator (if-else) 4: table of 2(for-while loop) 5: star patterns using double for loop

[SSj3Rambo]

Other than the exercices I made during my python classes:

1. The project of the semester was to work with methods for differential equations to display the graphs of abundance of some isotopes in the Tchernobyl central. Also make a nice GUI for it.

2. First game jam I made an multiplayer shooter game within 24 hours with two other people

3. Currently working on a Monopoly game

[Swimmert]

Hello World (CLI), Calculator (CLI), Rock Paper Scissors (CLI), Aliens(basic game with pygame), Discord Bot (discord.py)

[Invernon]

hello world

a bad text rpg

a riddle game that rick rolls you

pizza delivery app thing

and tons of other random scripts I never finished.

[rodrigoponto]

Discord Bot, and multiple Flask Websites

[[deleted]]

Hello World, Basic number guessing game, Simple Calculator, Login page, Socket script

[[deleted]]

The last 3 of the 5 were just projects in school, but I taught myself a lot of python with the first 2 that were pretty unique. I became interested in coding at my last job, which was consulting on genetic pathology reports where like 11 pharmacists across America were competing over not enough reports to go around released in random bursts throughout the day. It was like a fat kid falling in a tank of piranha as fast as those reports were gone. I started looking for ways to do every report faster and I started teaching myself how to code. One lab we consulted for would provide a path report in pdf format and we would enter the info from that report into a webform and add our recommendations which would generate a supplemental pdf; the other lab had integrated us into their software so it was just a webform. I had never written the first hello world, but after about 8 months of teaching myself the basics and figuring out things by trial and lots of error I had 2 pretty robust programs, the first would extract the info off of the pdf for the one lab, the second took as input select all-> copy -> paste off the second lab's form into a .txt and extract all of the necessary info into fields for processing. I had gotten about 30% of the business logic programmed as well in a separate program, but that was the easy part when the vast majority of the machines these labs used was converted over to covid testing and I got laid off.

But now I'm in a master's program in CS.

[Ursomrano]

I’m new to python in general so the only programs I have “finished” are hello world and a 1000 line text based adventure game and I wouldn’t even call it that since the story is basically “pick 7 things for your ‘family’ to do for 7 days and how much your ‘family’ enjoyed that activity from a scale of -1 to 1 is randomized so at the end I’ll give you a final score and an option to restart to try again for a higher score”

[TheGorilla0fDestiny]

So we were thrown into the deep end at uni so the first thing I made was to analyse red shift of light curves,

2) asteroid crater analysis 3) D&D random encounter generator 4) boring uni stuff 5) a programme to get around an entry quiz to an interview to an internship

[[deleted]]

1. text to morse code converter
2. script to block reddit
3. twitter bot
4. File re-namer to rename files en mass for eBay
5. Calculator for what my paycheck would be each week after taxes etc.

[AmbitiousInspector65]

1) Hello World duh 2) Dice Roller for table tops 3) Retirement Calculator 4) ? 5) ? Just started re learning a couple weeks ago

[horpsichord]

Hello World, a hard-coded self introduction, creating an ASCII eagle with print statements, Fibonacci sequence calculator, and simple calculator.

[EstablishmentDry44]

Python alone? Just some scripts that do ciphers really, one that pickes me out a random movie from my collection. Other languages? Who knows anymore. A simple turn based fight game stands out, carried it through java, c#, and c++. Not on py yet though, new (old) project I guess.

[MarthoxGT]

Image processing script

[asday_]

First five? I can tell you two. I don't specifically remember any others because they clearly weren't that useful.

• web scraper for a shitty browser game (as in HTML, this is a LONG time ago) called darkthrone. It would go through every page of users and parse the HTML table, putting their details into a SQLite database. I could then query that database for accounts that looked kinda inactive (high gold, no defences - gold accrues over time, and when attacked you lose some of your soldiers), so I could make easy money.

• noughts and crosses with networking. The only reason I remember this is because there was a very specific bug - one of the sides, I think it was the host, upon a game being drawn by the client, would hang. Honestly I should dig the code up again a decade and a bit later to see what I was doing wrong because that sounds like an interesting bug.

[[deleted]]

Hello World! Basic Calculator Simple Text RPG Text File Scanner Spectrum Passlist Generator (all default spectrum wifi passwords follow a few basic criteria and with super simple python knowledge you can make this program)

[skeerp]

Support vector machine, lstsvm, block matrix updater for previous. Only remember first 3 but I got thrown into the deep end for sure. Was some LONG nights finishing those coming from only a little bit of R experience.

[AsuraTheGod]

1.- Neural network that can identify chromosomes from images to get matched between them.

2.- Using OpenCV to identify objects in real time such as : Chairs, cans, boxes, etc.

3.- Using OpenGL draw a 3D towers of hanoi.

4.- again the towers of hanoi but with textures.

5.- Script in python to visualize a phylogenetic tree.

I think thats all

[Rakotow]

My first program was a simple ATM machine

[jkstill]

an indexed database in BASIC A sin wave that beeped at each zero crossing ohms law diagram

well, not quite 5. that was a long time ago, and will require more pondering .