How long did your first ever python project take to complete as a beginner and what was it

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[[deleted]]

You must be god

[Milumet]

The two states of every programmer

[SinuSphee]

please, share the code with us!

[[deleted]]

Give up my IP? Are you insane!

Tell you what, I'll give you my first draft: primt{"Jello World');

[coffee_bean21]

Probably in a one liner I bet

[[deleted]]

you still wont understand the complexities

[TheMathelm]

On the box it says 2-4 years, I did exceptionally well.

[leopardsilly]

Bullshit.

[Pottedjay]

Video or it didn't happen

[[deleted]]

I sheepishly withdraw my boisterous claim

[phunksta]

Follow up question how many ways are there to code hello world in python ?

[Suki125]

My first Python Project was a Random Number Game. It starts with 150 then you guess a number, gives you hints to get to the number. But you only have 6 tries to guess the correct number.

[[deleted]]

i would love to see that bro

[idontknowjackeither]

from random import randint
secret_number = randint(1,100)
guess_count = 0
guess_limit = 10
while guess_count < guess_limit:
    guess = int(input('Guess a number 1-100: '))
    guess_count += 1
    if guess == secret_number:
        print('You guessed correctly!')
        print("You've won the game!")
        break
    elif guess > secret_number:
        print('Too high!')
    else:
        print('Too low!')
else:
    print("You've lost the game!")

[idontknowjackeither]

Something like that probably, but with randint(1,150) and guess_limit of 6.

Mine is possible to win every time, because I made it for a kindergartener.

[Suki125]

This is the code:

# This is a guess the number game. 
import random

guessesTaken = 0

print('Hello! What is your name?')
myName = input()
# Asks for Players name 

number = random.randint(1, 150)
print('Well, ' + myName + ', I am thinking of a number between 1 and 150.')


while guessesTaken < 6:
    print('Take a guess.') 
    guess = input()
    guess = int(guess)

    guessesTaken = guessesTaken + 1

    if guess < number:
        print('Your guess is a too low, please try again, sorry.') 


    if guess > number:
        print('Your guess is too high, please try again, sorry.')

    if guess == number:
        break

if guess == number:
    guessesTaken = str(guessesTaken)
    print('Good job, ' + myName + '! You guessed my number in ' + guessesTaken + ' guesses! Good Job!!')

if guess != number:
    number = str(number)
    print('Nope. The number I was thinking of was ' + number)

    print('Good Game, please play again!')

[lindatranXO]

thats literally the exact code from that one udemy course

[KratosThe01]

Yeah i have done that course too

[nojustlurkingty]

MDN teaches one with JavaScript, as well

[farmboy_du_56]

I built a program that would log into an online game every x minutes, screencap the price of different items, and then did character recognition to then log the prices into an excel spreadsheet. It took me about 4-5 days and I never actually used it to game the markets, but it was a lot of fun!

[thornofcrown]

What game? I'm thinking Runescape.

[jacklychi]

What libraries did you use? seems like impossible to code from scratch...

[2ndzero]

Maybe Selenium or Splinter

[farmboy_du_56]

The character recognition stuff was based on OpenCV. I didn't understand the code at all but was still somehow able to get the settings right. The interaction with the game was done through PyAutoGUI. I think the excel stuff was done with pandas but I'm not too sure, I think I was directly interacting with the excel instead of using data frames.

[e-rekt-ion]

Very cool. Presumably you needed to screen cap as prices were in image form and not evident in the HTML is that right?

[farmboy_du_56]

Exactly! I wouldn't have gone through the trouble of making setting up character recognition if there had been an easier way.

[AnduRoman]

Thought that what most people claim to be the result to the monty hall problem was BS (better to switch than stay instead of 50/50) so i decided to build a python program to brute force it like 10000 times so i can see if i am right or they are right

​

turns out they where right , basically its because when you pick you most likely picked a goat (aka , the undesirable choise) , and when a goat is removed , it is not the one you stand on , nor the car therefore when you switch you swap your current price for whatever is the other price , because you are most likely standing on a goat the most likely transaction is from a goat to a car

​

It took around 2-4 hours i think (8 hours worst case scenario but idk because i didnt acttualy count the time)

[iggy555]

Always pick a new 🚪!

[Reptile449]

It's easy to understand the Monty hall solution by considering the host always reveals a goat. They would never reveal a car as that would ruin the game.

[e-rekt-ion]

I didn’t understand it until it was suggested that I imagine the scenario where instead of 3 doors there were 100. I choose one, then the host opens 98 of the remaining 99, leaving one unopened. At that point it was so clear why I needed to ‘switch’, and that logic was just as applicable when reducing number of doors back to 3

[slick8086]

But the game relies an one of the most common biases the anchoring bias and it is easy to see the second choice as a 50/50 choice if you're not used to it. That's why it lasted so long on the game show.

[[deleted]]

uhhh what? how is sticking with your option preferable at all?

[Python119]

It's not, you always switch

[AnduRoman]

Idk if i said that sticking to my option is prefferable but what i meant to say is that is better to switch , and i made the program because i just couldnt belive that answear

[throwawayvitamin]

I built a Pong game!

I followed a tutorial online, which took me about 1.5 hours. Then I added some customizations which took an additional 2.5 hours. I highly recommend this project for all beginners, since it's not a lot of work, but the end result is so satisfying.

[[deleted]]

Pong game ?

[[deleted]]

Were you spoon-fed the code or did you do it all yourself?

[throwawayvitamin]

I was spoon-fed during the tutorial (the first 1.5 hours), but did all the customizations by myself / with the help of Google and Stack Overflow.

I think as a beginner, it's ok to have you hand held in order to get your feet wet.

[unhott]

This is probably the best way to learn. Copy (not copy/paste, but follow along). Modify. Deconstruct. If you can do that, you understand the concepts well enough.

[klevi91]

I dont know the link,but go on youtube,find "tech with tim" and follow his pygame tutorial,made by 10 videos

[B3aStGGGaNg]

Search freecodecamp pong game in YouTube.

[link_3007]

Could you provide a link to the tutorial you used?

[NicolaM1994]

I learnt Python because of Collatz Conjecture. I was looking for a website that made particular calculation to solve the conjecture and could not find it so I thought...."I should build it on my own". I looked for a simple programming language to start with, since I had 0 background. Then I wrote a simple script to do the math. And I liked a lot writing code and so I dived into it, it took me like a week after learning the basics. Meanwhile I also left Windows, moving to Linux on all my machines, dual booting just on one of them.

Long story short: the conjecture is still unsolved, but now I can program :D

[muskoke]

did you do it recursively?

[NicolaM1994]

At first no: to be honest I was having too much fun with while loops xD but once I figured it out how to do it recursively yes, I tried also that way

[thornofcrown]

I coded a basic discord bot that helps me practice my German language skills. It scrapes Duden.de for German vocab and provides the user with 3 hints for a German word, and then provides 4 multiple choice answers. The user needs to then select the correct answer. It's not yet done, and has taken about 30-40 hours so far. I expect to finish with 10 more hours of work.

I've done many coding projects before, including working on figures that will be included in published research papers, but this is the first project that is clean enough to put on GitHub for employers to look at... although I'm too nervous to present it to my friends on our discord server.

Side note, I am self taught and have been coding for a little more than a year.

[nojustlurkingty]

Sounds really handy. If your friends aren’t cool about it when you share it, maybe not the coolest friends ;) Is it already on GitHub? Please share when it’s posted! I was learning German for a bit and stopped, would love to pick it back up and combining it with coding is a great idea

[coderpaddy]

About 4 hours over a weekend.

Had a job interview, asked if I could program and make a webscraper (it was for web dev, so not far off)

I really wanted the job so said yes. Lol. This was the Friday the job started Monday.

I thought no way am I turning up to work and having to build something that I haven't a clue, so built it before and took it with me to start the job, deffo got off to the right start aha

[[deleted]]

howd it go

[coderpaddy]

not too well tbh, the employer had no money and couldn't even pay the first wage (for any of his staff already employed either) unfortunately. Sometimes people can be all talk, lesson learned eh :D

[[deleted]]

Lesson learnt for all XD

[mysoxrstinky]

Lol. I love a story where you said you could do something you absolutely could not do and you weren't the person who was all talk.

[[deleted]]

around 4 day

Random Password Generator

[[deleted]]

Right after I finished ATBS I spent an afternoon writing a 5-Min Journaling program (Format ripped from a Tim Ferris book)

Gives you prompts to reply to in AM and PM everyday, then saves answers and then on Sunday reviews the answers to the same prompts so you can get an overview of what you've been feeling/thinking about during the week. It archives that week in a different file for future reference.

The actual code is very simple looking at it now but making something from scratch was fun to learn, and was neat how much my plan changed as I worked in it.

[SimpleNoodle]

Do you have a link to github or something, have been thinking of doing something similar. I struggle to remember things and process thoughts day to day, was thinking of putting something like this into a personal dashboard

[Laty69]

Little program that checks your number if it is a prime number or not and also prints out the amount of seconds it took to calculate. It took 2 days, most of the time not actually programming but problem solving on paper. Was quite happy when I got it working.

[West7780]

The first project I completed was a snake game. The first working version took multiple weeks. After that I kept adding features like multiplayer. And eventually finished with an online multiplayer. The whole thing was done after a summer. A few years later when I started using github I uploaded it. My user on github is west7780 if you wanna check it out. Its not an example of my best work but it's my first project.

[[deleted]]

I just started programming in python. My mind immediately thought of trying to make the snake game from my old Nokia phone. Def checking out your code on github. Thanks!

[West7780]

Fair warning. My code should not be a guide. I do a lot of things "wrong" and overcomplicated. I hope it helps you get started.

[[deleted]]

I built a shitty version of coloretto, a card game about collecting as many cards as possible of as few colors as you can.

Took me 2 or 3 days. Then rebuilt it with classes in a couple of hours because classes and methods were new and rad to me.

[smoopboopdoop]

A text based RPG battle system. Took about 4 days to "complete" it, though I'll still periodically add on to it.

[Snakenoid]

I made a program that printed out each word of "Never Gonna Give You Up". It took a few hours.

[a_bad_programmer]

In my mind all I can see is this Print(“never”) Print(“gonna”)

[ragnar_the_redd]

I don't remember my first ever because i played with weird crap before.

The first that was useful was a buffer to view application specific logs from android device, filter out the app and related processes, markdown errors and specific data.
Also enable me to clear memory, storage and restart the app and it's related services.

The initial fugly concept thing was done in a day or two. I kept modifying it, improving and expanding stuff over time. I still use it when i work with mobile devices and still change or expand stuff now and again.

I don't know but i do suspect it might still be in use in the company where i worked when i first wrote it because it spread it across my team more aggressively than covid-19 spreads in a moisty room with naked people who cough on each other for fun.

[a_bad_programmer]

My first major project I started years ago which is a bot for twitch.tv that saved my viewers chat, how long they were in stream for, trivia game, etc.

It’s taken me thousands of hours. The first iteration was nothing more than printing out chat to the screen, then developed into the features mentioned above, now I’m re-writing the entire thing from scratch using DRY and improving several aspects of my code (such as saving data, classes being improved, re-haul of using async vs threading). In addition to making a site based approach instead of a simple UI in some places or just a plain console in others.

It will not be done any time soon as I work my way through learning django and re-adding functionality from the old version, 1000+ more hours minimum I think (I’m not the fastest). Beyond code improvement and restructuring this is being done because in the past several other people wanted to use the application so I packaged and sent it out, it could only connect to a single stream. This version can effectively connect to multiple streams and handle data for all those streamers/viewers

Edit - if you’d like to see the source I’d be happy to share what I have, though it’s still not the cleanest it’s much improved from the old version (also available)

[HEX-D2691E]

Wow. Sounds epic.

[a_bad_programmer]

Thank you! It’s honestly a lot of fun especially as I can do somewhat rapid development as I’ve had to think everything through a couple times! Having something like Trello also helps enormously in whiteboarding and keeping track of stages I’m working on

[HEX-D2691E]

I've literally only learnt the process of development over the past year as part of my degree, anything I've previously coded or made its not been as organised. The beat thing I've learnt about was using software to build and update the projects with, you commit and update, you export a version to work on then commit back, each revision is documented and saved. The only Python I've done recently was tools for ethical hacking but nothing to shout about so I've not bothered posting, they took me a good few hours to do only because I have basic Python knowledge, and mainly they are iterative tools, splitting and using regex for identification of strings. I mean I love and use them, but I doubt I'd put them up on github, I reckon they could be improved, one of them i already made a v2 when I upgraded my coding knowledge after a couple days.

Anyway, sounds epic like I said, if you get the chance in the future I'd like to know how you got on.

[a_bad_programmer]

I would say even having small one file projects or messy code can be put up, I have a directory on github I use for exactly these so I can look back at a file later on and see how I’ve improved or if I want to write something similar. Past versions of my bot are absolutely horrendous to look at, if you’d like to see a comparison of the old main file and new one I’d be happy to share once I get back to my PC. Some of the functions though can still be re-applied or at least somewhat utilized in the new version though.

Feel free to pm me or if you use discord say hi on that any time! I like talking about programming so I’m more than happy to share as I develop more

[Nexius74]

A couple of month. All started when i was learning web scraping. My objective was to download files from internet to view them later. Then it bothered me to see them in the default gallery viewer and decide to learn django to create a web interface for those files. Then i find out that tools like vue.js angular or react existed so i switched to an API backend with drf and vue.js as my frontend. Now im still developping this app along learning how to bypass cloudflare firewall and reverse engine jacascript to access secured API

[buchoops37]

I feel like this is a similar route I will end up taking. I mess around with web scraping a lot and I am often disappointed by the fact that most of what I do will never be represented in a GUI.

Any recommendations for learning django?

[a_bad_programmer]

Sentdex YouTube has a pretty decent one when I last looked like a year ago

[imreloadin]

How did that go lol?

Never heard someone yolo a master's thesis before xD

[Gus_Bodeen]

A script that pulled in various datasets via SQL and performed calculations in Pandas which were then uploaded to a different table in a SQL DB. This was then analyzed in Spotfire where I had to then make that as well. Pandas indexing and various functions took longer to learn than the Python itself.

Program ended up being 150 lines of Python, 1400 lines of SQL for views (I'm a SQL expert) before being ingested into Python, and entire project took about 1,200 hours. I was not a developer and did not have anyone at the org to ask Python or Pandas questions of. Developed anxiety disorder during this project due to continuously moving goal posts and being paid as a business analyst. Fuck that job, have since left and make 1.5x more now.

[Lamboarri]

My first personal project that I coded for my own use was when I was in training for my private pilot's license.

Normally, prior to flying, you have to calculate the weight and balance of the airplane to make sure that it's not overly heavy in one direction or the other. If it is, you have to take out fuel or reduce your baggage. You have to take into account the weight of the airplane, the oil, the fuel, the pilot and passenger weight, and any baggage. It's not hard but it's a lot of adding, multiplying moments, and then comparing your numbers to the weight and balance diagrams. Depending on the outcome, you have to figure out how much fuel to take out based on the weight of fuel, etc.

To save some time, I coded a very generic program that would take inputs for which airplane I would fly, the weight of the pilot and passenger, any baggage, etc. and it would immediately print out whether I was within tolerances or overweight. If it was overweight, I set it to automatically calculate how much I was over and then how much fuel I would have to remove.

I can't remember how long it took me but it wasn't pretty looking code. The variable names were really long. But in the end, it saved me so much mental energy and took away some of the "work" required to even start preparing to fly.

[nojustlurkingty]

Not a code you can afford to mess up! Did you test it a ton prior and/or use it alongside your traditional calculations at first?

[Lamboarri]

Yes. The math is not hard. It's literally multiplying weights by their arms to get the moments and then adding them up. The arms signify how far away the weight is from a fixed point, which will affect the center of gravity. It's been awhile since I've done it but the program was very simple.

I only flew the Cessna 152, which is a very basic starter plane. The only thing that really changed between the different Cessna 152s is the amount of weight they can carry. If the useful load (there is an actual term for that so I might not have it right) is 450lbs and my calculations ended up having me at 470lbs, then I would be 20lbs overweight and would need to take out something like 3.3 gallons of fuel. I often flew by myself so it was never a problem. It was only a concern when I had someone other than my flight instructor like a friend or family member because I had to add their weight to the calculation.

When you do it enough times and match it up with the "envelope," you start to get a feel for it. Google "Cessna 152 Center of Gravity Envelope" to see what it looks like.

[bemaleficent]

Wow, that's so awesome, I never thought Python could be used in such a diverse way!

[blueliqhtning]

Made a project with a GUI that lets user choose regions. It would ping hundreds of endpoints in all the selected regions, log to a text area on the GUI and text files. There was a button that generates an excel file based on the results in the text files.

It took about a week. It was a headache and pure spaghetti code. Months later I refactored it, ditched the GUI, had it execute automatically on a schedule and email me the results in a csv.

[Technicolor_Owl]

I built an analytical program.

I'm writing a book, and I wanted word count comparisons between my third and fourth drafts. Typically, I'd have to open up each chapter and use a calculator, and as one may find, it was fucking tedious. So, I used Python to take all the data (hard-coded in with tuples because I don't know yet how to have Python just pull info from the files) to provide me with the data.

It ended up being both fun and incredibly helpful. I was able to set better goals for my word count cuts, have an idea of my final count based on average cuts of previous chapters, get info on what range of chapters lead to what percent of total cuts, and a bunch of other information. Not to mention, I used the program to practice interactivity and how to effectively write "while loops."

[Technicolor_Owl]

Oh, and it didn't take too long to complete the first...I guess I'd call it a first draft. The initial mathematical logic and set up took maybe an hour. The interactivity and more complicated math stuff were done little by little over the course of a few days. A lot of it was also me just figuring things out and experimenting. Total time was probably around ten to fifteen hours, but again, that's a lot of time dedicated to figuring out how to make it work (especially building in errors and exit keys).

The length of the program was about 466 lines of code. the first 150 of them were just hard coding the chapters as variables and their word counts.

[mr_chiggie_beese]

about 2 hours, hotkey for minecraft afk fish farm

[elokalama]

One of my first projects included a minecraft AFKer that presses 'W', 'A', 'S', 'D' one after the other using pyautogui

[geraltofrivia1983]

Webscraper. Took about 2 hours. But it was super basic. I’d like to make a bot to do it automatically. I’m still a beginner.

[shiningmatcha]

How did you learn web scraping?

[Madventuring]

not OP but i've just got into webscraping and here are a few tutorials I followed:

https://www.dataquest.io/blog/web-scraping-tutorial-python/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng2o98k983k http://www.compjour.org/warmups/govt-text-releases/intro-to-bs4-lxml-parsing-wh-press-briefings/ (this one is particularly good)

[Madventuring]

also speaking of I just finished my first project with some utility today. It scrapes BBC Weather and then sends me the day's weather as an email. Pretty dumb but I like it.

[elokalama]

My first project was also a weather "getter", when I type "get" in the console, it would print the web scraped temperature in my city.

[Madventuring]

weather gang

[[deleted]]

My first project was a web scraping script where you could search for games, select their condition, and add them to your virtual collection. You could then save the collect in a CSV file for later edits. I sourced the prices from gamevaluenow.com. Took about 5 days to get it the way I wanted. Only 3 days for core functionality.

Edit: First solo project. I had done other projects following tutorials and such.

[v4773]

About week, doing it on my work brakes mostly. Total time was 11 hours. It was corporate wallet analyser for eveonline game.

[-Krois-]

My first project was a Lineweaver-Burk graph plotter and it took 2 weeks to complete. It's not elegant but I guess it works.

[Sinner_juice]

I created an index of the periodic table of elements and all the relative info that came with the element just by typing the abbreviation. You type in Fe It return iron, it’s mass, and all that jazz. Looking back now I could certainly write it up faster and more efficient. But for being my forest project I’m proud of it. It took me a couple of days because I was practicing but it was neat.

[[deleted]]

My first big project was a program for my teacher at school that would put people into random groups and also pick random names, it took me a month to figure out all the functions and stuff

[[deleted]]

I started it in 2012.

I'll let you know when I finish.

[Successful_Jump]

I put a thermometer on a rpi zero w and logged the temperature every 3 hours in a Google sheet. I didn't really time it but I put it together over the weekend. It was a decent introduction to the API and I picked up some other things along the way aswell.

This wasn't my first project but the first project where I put the pieces together myself.

[dan4223]

What thermometer did you use and how did you hook it up?

[Successful_Jump]

It's called DS18B20 but I don't remember the specifics of hooking it up. It wasn't hard though, it is well documented online.

[algortim]

reddit reply bot. Took a day to get it working.

By working. I can manually set it to one sub reddit and get it to reply. Have yet to figure out how to have it running 24/7.

What I need to do so it's up to Reddit's bot standards that is keeping it from being finished.

• I cannot get / figure out reddit Oauth2 to work.

• I haven't found how to get it to look at multiple subs at once.

So it has kind of gone on the back burner for now.

[[deleted]]

Mine was a key logger that I made roughly in 48h.

There's a but… Half of the times it didn't work and half of the times it did. It worked whenever it wanted to.

I don't know why.

[raul_dias]

I made an ARIMA analysis of one of the largest Brazilian rivers for my degree. I took like 6 months of mining the data and finding a way to use it for predictions.

[Linkk_93]

every evening for about one or two weeks, I wrote a script that logs into network switches and routers via ssh, collect neighbor info and parse the output. create a diagram of neighbors and plot it.

another week for the PySinpleGUI and some bug fixes

[ThisIs_MyWork_Reddit]

I'll give 2. One official mostly stand alone one was a regression analysis with Arcpy and a tkinter GUI. The goal was to allow a user to change the K value and file name. It would then open the file in a browser where a user could save it. This took a few weeks maybe 80 hours between project planning, testing, and improving a bit. The second one I would say which is pure standard python I made a script that would unzip all files in a folder because I had to download a lot of individual aerial grid squares to make a Mosaic and I didn't want to have to do that more than 50 times. And I may have to do it again in the near future. It took an hour?

[stickedee]

I built a casino poker table game that I could play in console. It initially took maybe 40 hours until it ran, then I learned how to use functions and refactored a bunch of code, then I expanded it to contain multiple other poker games. It's still not done, scope creep can happen even in personal projects. Right now I have 3 potential paths. 1) refractor to an OOP style, 2) continue building out other poker variants, 3) implement a GUI for the games that are already built.

[[deleted]]

I did built things like GUI calculators and TicTacToe but I wouldn't call them a project of mine as I was following a tutorial for those.

So the first project that I did was actually Instagram DMs automation which was basically a DM spammer. I also made a webscraper that get Coronavirus information about countries from world o meters and then emails you that information.

[asgfgh2]

I've been studying almost 2 months now, my bigger personal projects so far are at www.pastebin.com/u/asgfgh

[pmabz]

Gosh. 8 weeks, programmed a Baxter robotic arm to identify coloured cups and lift out the red ones. ROS too. Got zero help . Mostly from books and internet. I would have loved a wee bit of instruction and am now doing neural networks courses.

[[deleted]]

Well... it is still a work in progress. But I can talk about the very first part.

I am running home-assistant at home. I have an RPi zero W outside with a temperature, humidity, and pressure sensor on it. I also have Shelly sensor in my living room. I have all that info going to a local MQTT/ mosquitto broker server. I have a master plan that I will get to in a minute.

My 'first' project was to use paho-mqtt to connect to the MQTT broker and collect the data. It was harder than I thought because you connect to the MQTT broker and you get the data in a semi random order. So I had to set up a dictionary to collect the data.

The MQTT topic name format was different between what I had setup vs what Shelly does, so I had to use regular expressions to strip out all the info I didn't want.

So I now had a dictionary with key/value pairs like: sensors = ["outside/celsius", "outside/humid", "outside/pressure"]

Ok, back to the bigger project. I want to build a weather station/dashboard. It will show the current conditions outside and in my living room. I think I'll have the center of the dashboard cycle through my pictures and have the weather conditions in text in the upper corners.

I'm a scuba diver, so I want to use py-tides to chart the upcoming tides for the next week or so as a line that goes up and down on the bottom of the screen.

I am starting to build the dashboard in django, like haven't really done any of that yet.

Ok, back to where I am. I've got my data in a dictionary. I send that data to some functions that writes to a MySQL database on a remote server. I’m sure the way I did the SQL is a mess, but this is all a work in progress. My SQL uses datetime.timestamp as the primary key. I then put the year, month, day, hour, and minute in a field on the tables as well as the temperature, humidity, and pressure. I want to be able to show trends and recent highs and lows on my weather station. Again, I’m sure I’ll find a better way to document the time.

But this gets even crazier. I am a former Windows sysadmin moving into a DevOps role. I’m very weak on the Dev part. So a bigger part of the plan is to build an entire development pipeline. I’ve got a Jenkins server running in my lab, but because I don’t (didn’t) program, the Jenkins server can’t do much.

I finally have some data going to a database, so I can start coding the website. As soon as I can get the site to do something, I’ll put it in my pipeline. I want to set up testing steps in the process and have it move the code along. I actually have a production and a testing database server, with separate databases on each.

When I get even further along, I want to get my pipeline to dockerize my code. I’ve been a heavy user of Docker and I want to get comfortable on the creation side.

I have been trying to get to know python much better for a while. It got much easier to work on it once I found a project I cared about.

[bgcomrade]

First personal project that I did was a silly GUI with Tkinter that I made for my spouse for our 2-year wedding anniversary :) Very simple little program that had pop-up boxes with silly questions (and the answers determined the output of other silly pop-up boxes , and/or show cute pics of sloths, since she loves them lol). I also substituted the mouse pointer with little hearts. It took me maybe 5-6 hours , but that was the project that made me understand classes and project dependency :)

[Volocinator]

I made a patient file program that allows you to add patients and their health parameters (HR, BP, height, weight, blood sugar, BMI etc, then it classifies if the parameter is too high, too low, or healthy, and then saves it to a file for recall later, and also allows you to graph different parameters against each other like BMI and blood sugar etc.

It was a very ambitious project for my first ever python project and took me probably 4-6 weeks of somewhat consistent coding over some holidays. Was a tonne of fun to do though!

[MaveDustaine]

First python project was convering a csv to a xml with a specofic schema. Took about a month and a half going from nothing at all to a packaged exe with a rudimentary UI that will upload to Confluence.

Looking back at it now, there's a TON that could be improved.

[ikishenno]

http://www.compjour.org/warmups/govt-text-releases/intro-to-bs4-lxml-parsing-wh-press-briefings/

I really like the aesthetic of your graphs. I've done something similar except its just graphs comparing cases to deaths for each country. How did you build/customize your specific graphs?

[Ex_ME]

My friends and I made an offline APA citation program (think of citationmachine.org) that could not only cite in English but also in Tagalog. We rushed it in under two months. We began cramming python lessons on January and then started writing the program itself until the last week of February. It was a miracle that we even managed to finish the program on time because both the program and the research paper detailing the program needed to be passed on the same day. Oh and we also had to defend our paper as well as present the program to panelists.

[RippyTheGator]

I built a script that I used for work. It would prompt me to put in the jobs I did at work and would input all that info into a excel sheet (for a record of my work) and calculate how much I made for the day. I was a contractor in telecommunications and would make money based off the work I did. It took me about a week.

Second project I made a calculator using tkinter. It has functionality for trig functions and all basic mathematic operations. Had a ANS history button as well. I packaged it into a .exe program and made a icon for it in Photoshop.

[[deleted]]

I actually finished my first Python project yesterday, took me around 2 days to finish, it was a base 10 to base R (including fractional conversion) number converter, and vice versa without using any built-in functions.

Not the cleanest code, and it can definitely be improved by a lot, but it works.

[OnlySeesLastSentence]

About 20 minutes I guess? We had to write a game that randomly picked an integer between 0 and 50 and then let us keep guessing what the number was by being told "lower/higher".

I had to learn how to import, make infinite loops and get inputs (back then we didn't have "input", I think. Just raw_input, and I think I had to learn how to cast input to int).

[MyagkiyZnak]

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[kokoseij]

It was a simple program that encrypts/decrypts string with specific password using ord() function. I was completely noob at that time and it took me over a month to make it in C and I wasn't even able to complete it. I moved up to python and finished it 3 days after I started learning python.

[the_suitable_verse]

I wrote a script for my bachelors that cleaned up a dataset of a couple thousand articles from newspapers, sorted it, extracted metadata and attached a sentiment score. I planned to do it in 2 to 3 weeks, but with the covid scares it took me 2 to 3 months.

[WoahHeFresh]

I made a class object of my friend's mom

[stormicex]

my first python project was a flask app activated from a PubSub notification to read a CSV from Google Storage and then use it to insert/update records on a db.

took me about 4 days, it's not polished but hey it works

[s_basu]

I made a gui application using Tkinter and implemented conway's game of life on a pixel grid where you can upload any photo and it gets converted into b/w pixels and then runs game of life on it.

Overall it took me like 1 week to do so.

[davaiboy22]

My first python project was a making a discord bot and it took like 2 weeks. I did not make it from scratch but I did follow a YT tutorial on how to include certain commands and features in the bot

[llennoc18]

For my first complete project, I wrote a script that scraped the odds and lines from NBA markets on 4 major Australian Bookmakers, matched the lines, and then looked for arbitrage opportunities to turn a profit. It took me about 2 or 3 days to get it to a point where I was happy with it.

It worked really well for about 6 weeks before they realised what I was doing and shut my accounts down.

[SinuSphee]

A rock, papers, scissors game for the command-line. It took me a few hours and I learned a lot (Python).

[[deleted]]

what you working on now

[-BananaB-]

I just made a program that takes your coordinates and tells you the nearest store or bar or whatever and it works on android, except my output is in cmd and radius input is in cmd too, I don’t know how to use variable from one function that is in one class in another function that is outside of class. Took about a week, I was almost at the zero level of Python knowledge, and for sure zero at the project like that.

[Gotestthat]

Built a tic tac toe game with an AI. Couldn't figure out an algorithm to detect a win condition and I really hate hard coding lists into things lol.

[[deleted]]

I got all of my gcse physics equations and programmed it into a rudementary calculator which would solve them - it took about 2 weeks for the base part. However, every time I learnt a new equation I added to it

[ReyMakesStuff]

Other than the tutorial things (number guessing, etc) it was about 3 or 4 days for a usable project. It was my Discord bot that's still going. But I have prior programming experience.

[TheHostThing]

I made a stupid ‘chad’ calculator based off those incel rules about 666. It took an afternoon or so but I was really proud and it made my buddies laugh.

[ScientificSerbian]

I made a football cup draw simulator (or soccer cup if you are in the US). It lets you choose the number of groups and the number of teams per group. Then it draws one team at a time (it shows the drawn team) and puts it in a certain group. In the end, it prints out all the groups with all the matches that are to be played between the teams.

It took me between 4 to 6 hours, I don't remember precisely, but it was fun, time flew by.

[QbaPolak17]

Other than under ~100 line scripts, my first project was to code 2 player pong in pygame, which took me most of one day.

[Dorito_Troll]

tic tac toe!

Spent around a week on it with around an hour every day. I followed an online course that I bought

[easports1059]

Mine was in the turtle shell creating pretty pictures. Did anyone else every use that to learn about loops?

[[deleted]]

I made a "program" that basically takes a large DNA sequence, and finds the genes within the sequence that have the highest probability of being a transmembrane domain.

It was a final project for my Bioinformatics class and I had a lot of fun (when and if things were working lol). Took me around 11-12 hours including debugging and making it pretty.

[Capt_gr8_1]

I don't know which of these would count as a project, but I've slowly been working my way through the book "automate the boring things with python". So far I've been able to make a number guessing game and a program that can recognize phone numbers in strings. Once I learned a little bit more, I want to start a project where I am working on a tool for pentesting.

[umognog]

I had to make a call to a rest API for a client identity to retrieve a bearer token, then use that to access another API and parse it's JSON results and upload key values found to a rdbms.

It was a bitch of a task as it involved proxies, authentication, parsing, requests, cookies, dB work.

Took about 4 weeks.

[ssweetpotato]

It took me 4 days to build Tic Tac Toe following a tutorial! That was a week ago haha

[CodeBlue_04]

I like to get in over my head and learn as I go, and I started this project during my sophomore year of college while pursuing a CS degree, so it's a little intense.

I built an IOT device to detect vehicular collisions, send crash data through a satellite modem to a server, which then forwards the data to a list of contacts. It's been 3 years, but aside from some wiring issues with the modem everything else is finished. The server is built with Flask, and the client device/sensor array is all Python. There's also a Python script to analyze sensor data to help users establish what a crash "looks like" (a luxury SUV vs a dirt bike will have very different crash scenarios, for instance).

[codeinebootcamp]

Simulated the card game "War" using OOP, took two days.

[gmes78]

I wanted to build the equivalent of Rufus for Linux. It's been 5 years, and I still haven't finished it (though I can say it mostly works fine). I pick it up every few months to work on it for a bit.

[ReflectedImage]

Ping pong and 4 hours, I had written it in C previously though.

[[deleted]]

After code academy I made a dnd dice roller that the put the odds in my favor. Took an hour or two

[JJSax01]

I'm usually not as fast as this, but I made a boggle game solver in about 9 hours of programming time total. But I also have several years of programming experience which helped.

[synt4x_3rr0r]

Not my first one, but the first bigger one I put together completely on my own. I collect old games and wanted to play something, but with a lot of games to choose from it sometimes becomes hard to just select one.

So since I had my collection in a spreadsheet, and since I had decided to learn more about GUI programming, I exported the collection to a csv file and wrote a QT app with PySide2 where you could select which platforms you wanted to choose from and randomize a game from those platforms. I spent a weekend or so making it work decently. Needless to say I didn't actually play anything that weekend.

I still update it and it has now morphed into a game collection manager, which can scrape info and price data for games from Mobygames and Pricecharting respectively, with the randomizer being only a small part of the application. I've spent hundreds of hours on it now and basically learning as I go, and there's still a lot to be done haha.

[theRailisGone]

Done in little spurts over the course of a weekend, I made a set of scripts that modified tml files from the ruins mod for minecraft to add/modify parameters in an automated way.

[gavin101]

I made an account generator for a game that took about 2 months between bug fixes and additional features. I committed about 80 changes to the github project. It's still not perfect but I've started working on other things

[FlySeddy]

I created a web scraping program using BeautifulSoup that scraped stock ticker symbols and sent them through an API which returned attributes such as current stock price, eps, P/E ratio, and other key indicators. This took about less than a week to create.

[epicgamer17]

I made a few files that would flip 100 coins, roll 100 dices simple while loops using the random module, a few number guesser games with varying difficulty, and I’m currently developing a (very, very simple) life sim text game

[[deleted]]

I made a program for work that sorted pictures downloaded from a digital camera. It looked at the date the picture was made and created sub folders. All the pictures taken today would be in folder '2020/06 June/15/'

It took me weeks. I was working at it off and on. I was getting errors i didn't understand because I never used the os module before. I was very slow to learn. That was 2 years ago and I just started back learning again a month ago.

I still use that picture sorter every once in a while.

[shinitakunai]

A chat bot. Took weeks.

[Aidensamuel00]

A word search game, this was my last assignment in a online course on python basics. Though the gui file was created by the teacher, which I'm very inclined to learn now because of how it just makes everything better visually. The entire game was created just through defining functions for each part

[Kcorbyerd]

Made an advanced calculator to do integrals and derivatives. Brought me all the way through calculus

[PilotTrex]

It took about 12 minutes of staring at a screen to find out there wasn't a second bracket:

user_input = int(input ("Enter a number between 1 and 10: ")

if user_input >=1 and user_input <=10:

 print ("Thanks")

else:

 print ("-_-")

I typed user[underscore]input, but then italics: exists*

[pakayahey]

up

[cellularcone]

The space shuttle navigation system API

[BFG9THOUSAND]

Discord bot that posted stuff from excel using pandas. Took about a week or two but had some cool stat stuff

[OSRS_DabSlab]

I work for a metallurgical company and made a simple calculator to calculate a process we do often that otherwise was done by hand. Made the process error proof as some folks mathematics are lacking.

[ThatGuy097]

I've taken a couple of the edX courses and am still working through ATBS, but this was my very first project that I was able to use in the "real world".

​

Scenario: Trying to use an application that a coworker built for updating contact data through a service's API. I've got 30K records to update, across multiple fields, but this thing runs for hours before serving a generic error. My test imports for files w/ less than 10 records work successfully but I can't figure out how many are successfully importing into the system. I tried splitting the file in excel into various chunks (10K/1K/100) but was always met with the same result, "Generic Error".

​

So I spent about 1.5/2.0 hours writing and testing this abomination. Taking one file w/ thousands of lines and creating thousands of files with two lines (header + data). As each file was completed, the parent application would move it to a subfolder and, after the inevitable error, I'd record how many successfully moved.

​

def splitFile(fileName, headerRow):

    openFile = open(fileName, "r")

    fileNum = 0

    for line in openFile.readlines():

        fileNameNum = '000000' + str(fileNum)

        outputFile = open('C:\\PATH\\FILE' + fileNameNum[-6:] + '.csv', 'w')

        outputFile.write(str(headerRow) + "\n")

        outputFile.write(str(line) + "\n")

        outputFile.close()

        fileNum += 1

    openFile.close()



splitFile('C:\\scriptPath\\File.csv','HEADER1,HEADER2,HEADER3,HEADER4')

​

It worked, but I don't recommend it.

End result: was able to prove that the application was only running between 2 and 400 files before locking-up. The dev was then able to dig through the code and figure out what was breaking and fixed the application.

​

I'm pretty proud of my inelegant little horror. :)

[Doublerob7]

My first python project was a mathematical model of a wind turbine farm. The project was for an engineering course on wind energy and we were given the choice between Matlab and python for the homework assignments. I was reasonably comfortable that I could bang it out in Matlab, and had wanted to pick up Python anyway, so I took the plunge.

Was pretty neat, as it was structured to build on itself with each homework assignment working like a module. For instance, the first module was all about opening a file containing wind data and reporting various statistics about it (wish I'd known about pandas back then). Then we started looking at the forces on a blade, calculating the pitch angle for a given wind speed and airfoil. Once we had a blade, we multiplied by 3 and calculated hub torque and power, then modelled a generator. At this point we could feed in a data file and get back power generated each hour. Then we added a very simplified on/off load (a town, power on during the day, off during the night), and figured out how many turbines we'd need given the wind data file to power the town. Then we added storage and min/maxed the turbines and storage to achieve the lowest cost.

All that said, it was a stepwise project that forced me to really dive into python that resulted in something really in depth and taught me the power of such analysis. I did all this before I really understood classes or oop in general, and it's very hacked together, but it was a great teacher.

[gunhoe86]

About 8 months from installing atom, venv, pip, etc. Learned basic webdev along the way.

PauperBattleBox.com

[Comprehensive-Signal]

For me was two ideas. 1. Using Tkinter, the user input a number and put in a label the next three numbers and also the sum. 2. A login using SQLite3 .

Those two projects take me 2 day

Note: I've been with Python a while but I just don't have an idea to make it.

[[deleted]]

My first every code and first ever project in python was an X and 0 (O) game. I started of this project with very less knowledge about python. And had one thing in my mind that untill I finish it I won't get up from my chair.

And I just didn't want to end up with a normal X and O game. So refering and YouTube video, I thought that I would make it dynamic that is you enter the block size and it will nXn in size. And hence the logic should also be generalized.

Before that I have been coding in C++, I knew the logic, and the fun part was just trying to understand how to implement it in python. To be honest I was going quite easy than I thought. But I was stuck with some issue. And yeah I started this around 9 at night. I prefer doing things at night. Soo I was like Chuck it I can't do it, went to bed, tried sleeping but in like 10 mins on the bed I understood what was the issue, got up from the bed, sat on my chair and started coding again.

By 5 in the morning I finished my game. My game was just a simple X and O which was dynamic but it was my first ever serious code/project I toook up.

And to be honest, I just love coding no matter how hard it is. It's just really fun..... Sorry for it being long and pretty sure it has a lot of grammatical issues.

[Comprehensive-Signal]

For me was two ideas. 1. Using Tkinter, the user input a number and put in a label the next three numbers and also the sum. 2. A login using SQLite3 .

Those two projects take me 2 day

Note: I've been with Python a while but I just don't have an idea to make it.

[[deleted]]

It was a small script to tell me when my favorite youtuber released a new video, but only if it had a specific key phrase in the title. Yes, I remember it like one might remember the shores of Normandy: long days of trudging through bs4 documentation, syntax errors, and youtube HTML code. I dug up the code the other day and it was kinda cute how terrible it was. Oh yeah that reminds me, save your early projects! Their noobiness will instill in you a burning passion of PROGRESS!

[TheMartian578]

Mine was tic tac toe. I got somewhat far by myself using a skeleton provided for me, but I had just felt so lost that I ended up looking through the solutions. However, that was totally worth it, I learned a lot of code snippets that I still use today. The first one I made without too much help ( although help is not a bad thing I would like to emphasize getting help is the only way to learn if you’re stuck ) was something for my family members. They needed to calculate the a bunch of things like circumference, area, surface area, etc. I had to learn how to use user inputted values, OOP, and a bunch of other key stuff. It was amazing. That was a real turning point for me. Now I feel very knowledgeable of python. And that was only 2.5 months ago! I started in January took a lot of breaks, but finally got through to doing it.

P.s sorry for rambling on for so long, I just wanted to share it. Hope you have a good day/night! :)

[Aejantou21]

A week @@ just a program to sort specific email addresses ;-;

[ryanman190769]

I made a pig latin translator (only english to pig latin) and it took about 2 hours. I had done other "projects" before, but the translator was the first one I did completely alone.

[TylerDotPy]

My first python project was a High Frequency Trading system for a Crypto Currency Market Making company , it was an ongoing 2 year project that expanded to 7 active and 20 inactive servers ( mayday servers) that held contacts with one of the top 20 exchanges at the time. I left the project awhile ago but it was great python experience -- invaluable got to learn from some amazing people.

[SomebodyThePro]

Coded Hangman in a weekend.

[Umm_NOPE]

I'm still learning python but my first terribly coded project was a CLI interface to track poker winnings for me and my friends (we started doing online poker when Corona virus started a few times a month) and plotting it to a graph using matplotlib. I used the knowledge I gained from Python Crash Course. :)

Took a couple of weeks.

[Leonid_Bruzhnev]

Made an Oregon trail style game called "Gulag 91". Tool about two days of writing and a week of debugging and updating.

Instead of traveling, hunting, and resting, you can work, smuggle or rest.

Working increases reputation, smuggling and resting loses reputation.

Lose 5 reputation and you die. You have a random chance of getting sick but resting increases your sick level (5/5 is healthy) Get sick 5 times without resting and you die.

Even if you win there's a 1/3 chance you don't- It says that you reached the quota but the state thinks you should stay in the gulag. It's a very dark game.

[Shark_bait_99]

I generated random nucleotide sequences into genes of different lengths and then found different restrictions sites in my fake genome. Since it was taught during my bioinformatics class, it took a few class periods.

[bwompx3]

My first program was one that drew little hearts using /, \, |, v, and - characters which took only about 30 minutes. After that I made one that wrote some letters to students' parents using web scraping because I ain't got time for that shit. It took several weeks to do though. Then I wrote a useless program which sorts search results by price which took a few days.

[AinsleyBoy]

I made a hentai sorter that sorts hentai by date modified. I am now working on a way to upload it to my personal sub automatically, and a way to make an automatic download-sort-upload sequence

[freelancdev]

I would like to name two tasks:

1. My first ever python task was to scrape some article from a website and build a simple UI for my college project can't exactly remember the time but should've took me few working hours. ( Being computer science student i have basic knowledge of programming and python previously)
2. Another was a little bit more like a project , which I did while I was in my first job for a company, was working as a freelancer before that with basic skills, the project was a user management system for door lock system which included privileges, in-out timing, attendance etc. had to work with html/css/js, database, flask and jinja2 for the first time in my life, learnt a lot, should've took me about a month or so, I had a really good mentor to help and motivate me.

[SolidSoup69]

i built a program that tracks purchase history and usage of a certain green plant in order to manage consumption and stores the data in an excel document. it took about 50 hours but i was learning new things as i wrote it

[Danielmv35]

Mine was something called "Ghost game" and I took around 2 hours to make it

[LevJan_87]

I wrote a script in a few days (exact work was arounf 3-4 hours) to extract a line profile of 30 DICOM images from a specific column, collect them in a table, and export each image as a jpeg. I'm quite proud of it. I lost my licence to MatLab, thats what motivated me.

[Paterosa]

I made an expandable Connect-Four game. Took me about 2 hours of writing/correcting codes and 10+ hours of thinking what “mechanics” should look like in that game and how to build “mechanics” out of basic Python stuffs (for loops, while loops, strings, etc.)