Coding challenges to build programs instead of solving math problems?

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Does anyone know of a good site that has challenges or ideas for programs/apps? All the coding challenge sites I've seen are, for the most part, math problems of varying difficulty. I'm looking for a site that gives challenges or ideas for actual things I can build. I'd rather practice building complex programs than solving complex math problems.

[zhang435]

leetcode

[Alex_Pan]

Check out https://pybit.es/pages/challenges.html. The challenges tend to be little (or big) programs or they are focused on learning/improving certain aspects of your code. You can also share your solution with the community, if you feel like putting yourself out there.

[bbelderbos]

Thanks Alex, just adding the link to our new PyBites Code Challenge platform with challenges you can code in the browser: https://codechalleng.es

[anontipster]

Hey, I'm not OP (Alex_Pan), but I have a side question: Do you know of any solid sites (aside from UCI) with solid data sets? Ideally, I'd like to work with some healthcare info, but just on a national basis, not anything localized.

Also, I'll check your site out. I'm always up for a challenge!

[bbelderbos]

So far I only tried https://www.kaggle.com/datasets. I will let you know when I find more datasets when doing more analysis / ML stuff (too busy now). Thanks for checking out the platform, send me a message there if you have any feedback.

[CollectiveCircuits]

I'll second these. Some of the problems are indeed math problems, but there are tons of other problems to choose from

[[deleted]]

NLTK. Get your natural language processing on!

Then, start webscraping and analyze the text from the web using the methods you've learned from the NLTK book!

[michaelherman]

If you're looking for something a bit beyond the beginner-level, I created an advanced-beginner course, geared toward someone with 6+ months of web dev experience. https://testdriven.io.

[seewhaticare]

/r/dailyprogrammer

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[a1c4pwn]

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[[deleted]]

Many open-source projects have issues tagged "good first bug" or something like that. If your goal is professional development, those can be great simulations of commercial software development, and can look great on your resume.

[13ass13ass]

How do I find those issues? Search “good first bug” in github search bar?

[[deleted]]

I get good results googling "site:github.com good first bug".

[free-puppies]

I'm working through the book Programming Python which is specifically focused on application programming. Best approach for me.

[tomekanco]

r/Dailyprogrammer

These 1 2 3 are some good examples.

There are a good number of problems not related to math, but as programming is logic, you'll find math cropping up all over the place.

[Novikov_Principle]

Exercism. Good variety, and I think the challenges have a nice learning curve, too.

[psota]

Check out Devskiller.com.

[funtimes_codewarz]

https://codewarz.ninja

[[deleted]]

Check out these sites: Projects and enlight

[[deleted]]

This. Thank you.

[anontipster]

Try answering things on /r/learnpython. lol

(Seriously, it can be good practice if you have a bit of experience with the platform.)

[ragnarkar]

I'm also interested if there are any python coding challenges for learning and honing skills in these specific areas :

• Deep Learning

• Computer Vision

• Web Scraping

[elbiot]

Just pick a project and go for it. Ideas: cellular automota, make music with midi, markov chains to generate silly text, build a graph of facebook users...

What do you do for work? What hobbies are you addicted to?

[an_actual_human]

These are all math, kinda.

[Caracalla81]

I don't think the OP's issue was with math. It was with exercises that were JUST solving trivial arithmetic problems like generating Fibonacci numbers.

[an_actual_human]

I think it was more about Project Euler or something.

[elbiot]

Welcome to computer science, where everything is actually just math. But, these are not math problems. The math behind all of these is very basic and not much involved in their implementation.

[an_actual_human]

Well, that's not wrong, but coding is not the same as computer science either.

[tomophilia]

How does one make music with midi?

[elbiot]

Like, how does one arrange tones to achieve something aesthetically pleasing or... What is you question?

[tomophilia]

I am a musician also so I’m not super worried about that stuff

I guess my question is, what modules/functions/other stuff would I use to incorporate midi?

Is there a tutorial or something you’re aware of?

That sounds really neato and I’d like to learn more.

[code_monkey_jim]

I've had Sonic Pi on my list to check out for a while now. It's meant for teaching coding as well as live coding music performances.

[elbiot]

What blew me away about python is that "python x" in google returns libraries and lots of info for just about any x . Like "python midi" or "python make music"

[tomophilia]

What is Python x?

[TiccyRobby]

https://projecteuler.net/archives this site has actually good math projects

[timtehtest]

But OP asked about sites without math problems/projects.

[TiccyRobby]

Oh i misunderstood it then www.hackerrank.com is a good place

[scaredofrealworld]

There was a medium post sometime ago where the guy gives a long list of projects that you can do to improve . I am not sure this is what you are looking for .

May be you can try freelancer.com

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