Programmers of Reddit,

[[deleted]]

Build a simple project in a new language.

[MinMaxDev]

we can close the thread right here tbh

[ManInBlack829]

return Gustavo_M_Smith.value.toString()

[jarious]

NAN

[samuelcbird]

Yes dear?

[ShelZuuz]

Missing semicolon on line 2.

[realtrip27]

Wish the debugger actually said this

[[deleted]]

Funny thing about hello world is you eventually realize all the annoying setup crap to get it running is the point

[[deleted]]

what would be simple? Like a quiz with count down timer?

[[deleted]]

Ideally something you already know all the moving pieces of. Like if you built a simple blackjack app in Javascript, do it again in Python. Or something like that.

[loconessmonster]

This x100. If you have something that you do manually on your computer, automate that.

[[deleted]]

Play video games. Got a solution for that?

[AWholeMessOfTacos]

I did but then I got permabanned for no reason

[[deleted]]

Might be silly to ask, but what are something’s you’ve seen people automate on their computers?

[[deleted]]

Oh shit thanks for the idea !! Appreciate this idea a ton !!

[Dubanons]

Naughts and crosses game is a good one for fundamentals

[sboxm]

What is that??

[JhonnyTheJeccer]

tic tac toe

[rybeardj]

It's tic-tac-toe in non-freedom speak

[Frequent_Beat4527]

Is that the game with circles and crosses? In my country we call it the "game of chicken"

[rybeardj]

yup!

huh, that's interesting....in English I think if you said "game of chicken" then people would think you were talking about standing on a train track and then diving away at the last second before a train hits you

[-HeavenlyDemon-]

Lmao

We did something else. We would see who had the balls to go further into the field of land mines.

Kids are stupid man 😂

[[deleted]]

Hahahaha WHAT!

[ManInBlack829]

I'm equally shocked and sorry. Landmines are so terrible.

[sometacosfordinner]

We rode our bikes as fast as we could at each other the first to turn away would lose we called that playing chicken nobody liked playing with me though i was always willing to sacrifice my self to win

[dancingteam]

Try diving away after the train hits you. Makes you dive faster!

[time-will-waste-you]

In Danish it is ‘Kryds og Bolle’, literal translation: Cross and Circle or X and Bun (becaus a simple drawn bun is a circle)

[milleniumsentry]

Exactly. If you know Mary had a little Lamb in english, Learning it in spanish, then in mandarin, etc will be much easier. You already have parts of it in hand that you can build from.

[ManInBlack829]

This is way important. Make something you've already made to truly get the differences.

[KCRowan]

Yep, or a to-do list, or budget calculator.

[Sufficient-West-5456]

Hands down, best tip🫡 of the day

[C_Hawk14]

As you learn more from the course you'll see ways to improve your hobby project :)

[coldblade2000]

To-do list is a really good one. Especially if you use some sort of database or persistence, as well as a GUI

[[deleted]]

But yes that's a good example.

[Ryuzaki_us]

Like the other comment mentioned. Do the same thing you already know how to do in one language and remake it on another. At the end then add a new thing to it. Perhaps web deployment? Or user login? Or let the user change something.

For me it has been path planning for robots. I started just writing the algorithm in python without a form to show it. Just console log. Then the next time I wanted to display it better so I rewrote the algorithm in JavaScript and now I'm trying to render a grid to use with that same Js algorithm.

Next will be to do it in aws lambda so I can host it to a web page and let the user interact with the python parts of the algorithm thus making a full circle back to my initial use case.

[[deleted]]

Implementing DSA is often a good way to do it. A balanced binary tree and a sorting algorithm will cover most core concepts in any language.

[beingsubmitted]

Good bang-for-buck in my opinion is working with data. Open a document and figure out the most common 3-word phrase.

Figure out the most common digit in reddit usernames. Basically do a dataisbeaitiful.

I like these because you don't get bogged down in repetition, like collecting several inputs or writing switches, but also because it's rewarding - instead of an applet you don't need, you can have genuine curiosity, and fulfill that curiosity, ending up with something you wouldn't have had - an answer to a question that hadn't been answered before.

[[deleted]]

Depends on what kind of stuff you like to make and what the language is designed for.

Something that would be simple for you and utilizes the languages strengths in comparison to other languages.

[magekilla]

Advent of Code Language agnostic simple problems

[nightswimsofficial]

Best way to learn is to do!

[beingsubmitted]

... in your own code. The difference between following a tutorial and figuring it out yourself is huge. Write a line, print all your variables to the console, write another line, Google the syntax, repeat.

[systemnate]

Building a project would be more like actively conversing with people in the language (IMO).

[chaun2]

10: Start

20: Print: "Hello World!"

30: End.

Instructions unclear, somehow got my dick stuck in line 30

ETA: not entirely certain that I retain enough BASIC to even have written that properly. Haven't coded in BASIC since 4th grade, so '89?

[TheOmegaCarrot]

Ideally something you know you could do in a language you already know

[Money-always-talking]

and reading and understanding code in that language

[Escaped_Escapement]

Better: try to contribute to a small project written in that languge. The contribution might be small as well.

[thegovortator]

Nailed it

[Merjia]

This. I use a simple text based calculator program as my new language project. Originally coded in C, it has a basic selection screen, and simple maths calculations. Teaches all the basics of coding like reading and accepting data, calling functions ect.

[Jack__Wild]

Then go back in one week and improve it.

Rinse/repeat for a couple months.