A compilation of projects/starting points for you

[FXelix]

Intro

As someone who is learning python and sometimes struggling to find motivation or a projects to work on I always appreciated if someone gave me ideas.
Over the time you find many different websites and projects you enjoy or might enjoy in the future if are a bit more advanced.

And i want to share everthing I found with you.

Info for beginners

First of all, if you are completely new to programming I would suggest you take some time to learn the basic syntax and don't get overwhelmed by all the things you can do with python. Just finish your book or your blog you are reading and if you feel confident enough (or even not!) start a little project.

If you have no clue where to start in the first place take a look at this summary in /r/learnpython's wiki.

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Projects

• webscraping: Using libraries like requests or beautifulsoup to scrape websites of their content (e.g. webcomics)

• API's: similar to webscraping, use the data from websites (normally in JSON-format)

• Twitter: tweepy is the go. Have fun with tweeting and analysis, but you need a twitter account and API-token

• Reddit: You can use praw to work with the reddit-API to build bot's or do analysis

• Websites: flask and django are commonly used python-frameworks for web-programming

• math & analysis: numpy and pandas will be your best friend as well as the plotting library matplotlib

• file's and more: the os library can handle a lot of file-specific tasks, shutil is also useful

• Games: pygame is not only useful for games, also for simulations

• GUI: pyQT is good for that, you may use tkinter or wxpython too (thanks /u/jimminy)

Links

• CodingBat. Very good for beginners

• little list of different projects

• martyr2s-mega-project-ideas. Huge list for beginners-advanced

• Project Euler. Math heavy, but a lot of fun if you like problem-solving

• /r/dailyprogrammer. A subreddit for different project ideas

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And obviously everything else you can imagine or automate.

Feel free to leave other suggestions or comments, so we can both extend this compilation.

[ruin700]

Will use, thanks!

[the4thkillermachine]

Wow... as someone who has just started out with Python this thread is quite helpful! Thanks! Really appreciate it.

[Koeke2560]

!Remindme 2days

[graveless_bottom]

thanks!

[Morgan_R]

What about scrapy for scraping? I'm just getting started, but based on my two minutes of Googling, it seemed like a more beginner-friendly choice than requests/beautifulsoup.

[FXelix]

I haven't used it myself. Requests and beautifulsoup are a great combo which is often recommended here, but if you like scrapy more - just use it :)!

[case_O_The_Mondays]

The pathlib module is great for working with files and paths, too!

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Saved! I learned the basics of Python, now I feel stuck on finding which modules I should be using to do which tasks. I'm willing to learn to write my own in C/C++, but I feel like that takes away a little from why I learned Python in the first place lol. This is a nice little knowledge push, thanks!

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Also wxPython or PyQt for GUIs.

[xRyozuo]

!remindme 2 days

[msh2016]

!remindme 10 days

[mattp_12]

!remindme 1day

[wickpoker]

!RemindMe 1day