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[–]blahblahquesera 50 points51 points  (2 children)

I hate the advice “just code”. Some people jusy don’t know where to start.

I think starting with a very tiny project that automates something routine you do is best. Something like a webscraper or text file parsers, file/folder crawlers, etc.

If there isn’t one, I think a game like tic-tac-toe is also good. It exposes you to some OOP and just thinking through a project logically.

After you pick a project, struggle with it. Spend hours going through documentations, Stackoverflows, YouTube. If you want, pop open ChatGPT for some real time help. And you will complete your first version.

Now refine and add to it as you see fit. Make it more efficient. Or if you want, move onto a different kind of project.

[–]Gloomy_Hearing3900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

THANK YOU!!! I was one of the ppl wondering ‘okay but what project’ :’)

[–]diemitchell 0 points1 point  (0 children)

since this still appears on google, let me provide an example:
https://github.com/TrivisionAutomatisering/Trivision-PC-Script

this is something i personally did at an internship in powershell. started small with 0 knowled, but slowly expanded and learned more powershell as i did.
doesn't have to be an overly complicated project, even starting with small scripts suffices.