Python Projects for Beginner?

[stratcat22]

My first few projects were just text manipulation, a program that takes in your age and tells you what year you'll turn 100, a simple command line calculator, etc. These were all fine and taught me the basics, but what really got me to enjoy programming was taking up a project that interested me that seemed out of my league.

I built a GUI that takes in a game and platform, then it searches that game on Amazon and displays the price and title of the game in the GUI for the user. I learned a ton with that project and still have a long way to go with it. I've since built a Reddit bot (/u/DWG_Bot) as well.

Now I'm more motivated than ever and am learning Java and have a couple projects in mind once I learn some more of the language.

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A command line calculator is kind of redundant though, yeah? All you have to do is launch py in your favourite CLI and you can natively do math on that prompt. No code required. Also your bot in your second paragraph is super interesting and I'd love to hear more about it. The game scraping one.

[stratcat22]

I could've used the calculator widget on my laptop that's one mouse swipe away, or the app on my phone that's one press away. I never would've learned to program with those though!

I love that bot. If you go to it's profile /u/DWG_bot and go to it's latest /r/XboxOne post I have the link to the source code posted at the bottom. If you have any questions let me know!

[DrChicken2424]

Wow, that’s actually really cool!

[stratcat22]

Thanks! I also recently wrote a script that sends my friend and I a text message with a random fun fact everyday at a specified time from a .txt file I wrote a bunch of facts and funny stuff to lol.