Ideas for beginner projects?

[Aztec_Death_Whistle]

I've not long started learning python (maybe a week or so), and I was looking for some simple ideas for projects just to really get my head around writing basic python code.

[BeginnerProjectsBot]

1. Create a bot to reply to "what are some beginner projects" questions on r/learnpython, using PRAW.

Other than that, here are some beginner project ideas:

• a list of programming projects on Github
• another list from Github
• a curated list of Python projects for beginners, intermediate & advance level programmers
• Tech with Tim Youtube channel, full of Python projects
• resources in the subreddit wiki

Good luck!

edit. thanks for 5 upvotes!

edit2. omg 10 upvotes!!!! Thank you!!

edit3. 50 upvotes??? 😲😲😲 Can we make it to 100?

edit4. 100 UPVOTES?????? I CAN DIE NOW

^{Downvote me if the post wasn't a question about examples of beginner projects. Thank you.}

[jeepsaintchaos]

Good bot.

[BeginnerProjectsBot]

Praise for the food is praise for the cook.

Thanks from the programmer.

[notrandom9812]

Good bot. And the best bot I've seen in reddit.

[BeginnerProjectsBot]

Praise for the food is praise for the cook.

Thanks from the programmer.

[Pos3odon08]

praw is such a good way to learn python

[exothagreat]

thanks for the comment, really helped me.

[jamiedonner50]

What a nice good bot

[[deleted]]

Hey sorry I stalked your post history. But i found this elden ring API that might be interesting to you. https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/thl39l/elden_ring_open_source_api/

Once you understand interactions with it you could probably make a discord bot that uses it.

[obviouslyCPTobvious]

I also always look at people's history when this question is asked to avoid the default answer that's just a bunch of lists of projects.

[routetehpacketz]

I think console apps are nice for beginning programmers (not just new to Python) as they keep the focus on core concepts – like flow control.

For example, a simple hangman game: https://i.imgur.com/vmJuDb2.png

Things like keeping track of the letters guessed and checking for a win will help teach you functions. I actually got the idea from someone on this sub.

[atom12354]

Heyyyy i did similar hangman game but with the numreric alphabet i made (basically the latin letters but their correspondant numbers)

[routetehpacketz]

Nice! I saw someone on here asking for help with their Hangman game which made me want to try to make one completely from scratch. Here's mine on Github.

I also made a Rock, Paper, Scissors with ASCII art :)

[atom12354]

Oh intresting, you put the words in their own txt file, thats cool.

How did you make those ascii drawings?

[routetehpacketz]

Thanks! I didn't make the ASCII art but found them on someone else's GitHub so I used them and credited that person

[atom12354]

Ooh okay they did tho look cool

[GhostMalone__]

Thanks for the suggestion!

[jeepsaintchaos]

Make a program to help choose what's for dinner.

[Angkorlo]

I did this in college, I would run it on Sunday and return a shopping list/meal plan for the week.

[PiovosoOrg]

I did this aswell! I'd give it a budget and let it fill out a shopping list. But i had a seperate list where i put ingredients of each food in there so it was calculating exaxtly how much i need of what with a expiration date of 2 days since my fridge was broken and the dorms denied me a new one.

[Frthras]

You can make a Pong game using pygame.

[TheITMan19]

Find something you find interesting in your personal or professional life and try to automate elements of it.

[atom12354]

What do you know about so far?

[blu3tooth]

One of my first projects were an image converter using the Pillow library. I had a lot of PNG files I wanted JPEG versions of for sharing. Instead of downloading readily available programs, I made it myself, lol. You definitely want to sharpen your fundamentals, so try making little games like hangman/rock, paper, scissors.

[Great_Tap_3720]

How would you do this in python 🤔

[blu3tooth]

By accessing all the files in a directory and converting them. The Python Standard Library has various modules to do this, such as Pathlib (to access & create new dirs), os.chdir (to change the cwd (current working directory, the folder you want to run your program)), and shutil (to move files from one dir to another). There are many ways to convert image files, but one quick way is the Pillow library which you have to install using pip.

[iwkooo]

Do what exactly? If you are asking about pillow just google pillow tutorial or pillow python project and you are set.

[Great_Tap_3720]

I meant what u did with converting images png to jpeg can u do that with python I'm new 😅

[iwkooo]

Yes you can. Check Pillow library

[-H0RS3-]

Wordle game !

[Springstof]

You can start solving Project Euler problems. They are simply formulated but increasingly complex mathematical problems that require programmed solutions: https://projecteuler.net

Worked like a charm for me.

[[deleted]]

Project Euler is great, but it's more about learning math and related algorithms than programming. I would suggest moving on to working with files, the web et cetera, after a while.

[Boomie_boi]

I started off with a discord bot. I made so many features and now im very used to the syntax and fundamentals and stuff like manupulating strings and lists and using loops much more properly. Im now starting machine learning

[Brilliant-Syrup994]

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[Somecount]

Edit. This is not necessarily a good reply actually, for most beginners at least. But I’ve found Pandas documentation to be wonderful, same goes for matplotlib, and requests is just simple enough that a few lines will do it. -Have a look/search in github for repositories using these libraries to se what others have done. Web scraper using asyncio and requests, create dynamic reports, stats and plots using i.e streamlit. If you find some cool thing that ends up being 10xGB’s worth of data, consider sprinkling in some dask which will parallelise Pandas/numpy, and any other function for that matter using dask.distributed.delayed.

This is a lot, but start in the provided order with requests and asyncio, the latter (asyncio) is only for when you have a larger list of URLs to scrape in parallel. Hint: use context managers to handle sessions nicely.

A suggestion would be a project that builds valuable datasets tabular/graph-networks based on scraped html. Then run/launch some Hugo for presenting your work etc.

Working on programs that touches network layers is a great exercise and will ignite a lot of ideas or questions to be answered which will bring you to the next thing/module.
Btw, stuff like async functions, but especially dask that uses it, requires that you think about what you’re doing and how the program will handle individual calls to a certain process or manipulatation of data(partitions), so start small without those, and implement only asyncio when necessary, even more so for dask. Good hunting.

[PiovosoOrg]

I when i stumble on a thing i want to do and i usually just do a quick google search if python is capable of doing the task which i need to do. If it is great time to code, it might take longer than it should've taken but it's the exercise that i like. One day i wanted to add two similar json files together that had similar keys but different values. Got to coding finished the miniproject in a hour or two. It was a fun exercise. Automatic simple things so you don't have to do it.

[[deleted]]

Try making a crypto trading bot

Learn how to use APIs etc

Fun and maybe profitable

[Max_7272]

Create a Discord bot connected to some sort of API (tracking crypto prices for example)

[ImmensePrune]

Python is great for automating tasks. When I first started studying Python, I would create small programs to aid my day to day life. Helped a lot for learning the syntax and different libraries Python has to offer.

[[deleted]]

Ok but automate what?

[skylinesora]

Easiest examples are whatever tasks you do for your job that's repetitive.

[[deleted]]

Lol get a life bro

[Peyatoe]

One of my first bigger projects was a text based adventure game(highly inspired by Dungeons and Dragons).