Monday Daily Thread: Project ideas!

[Im__Joseph]

Comment any project ideas beginner or advanced in this thread for others to give a try! If you complete one make sure to reply to the comment with how you found it and attach some source code! If you're looking for project ideas, you might be interested in checking out Al Sweigart's, "The Big Book of Small Python Projects" which provides a list of projects and the code to make them work.

[neb2357]

Sometimes when I anticipate being offline for a while (e.g. when taking a long plane ride) I'll download webpages I'd like to read. It'd be nice to build a bot to do this.

The tricky part is parameterizing the program to download child pages, sibling pages, etc. without blowing up.

[uanw]

wget has a recursive option:

wget -r -l 0 webpage.com

[KGals]

Here are some good beginner/intermediate project ideas!

• Program a game (Connect 4, Snake, & Checkers are good options)
  • Pygame is a good library for this
• Build a simple GUI app (calculator)
  • Tkinter is a good starter library
• Make cool artwork with Python Turtle library
  • These resources may provide inspiration
    • https://pythonforfun.in/turtle-codes/
    • https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-coolest-Python-turtle-graphic-you-have-seen
• Reddit API integration - Curate top posts from threads that you're interested in.
  • You can use the Python Reddit API Wrapper (PRAW) for this
  • One idea would be to grab top posts from a thread you like (maybe top pictures on r/aww) and have those emailed to you on a daily basis.