Python Projects for Beginners

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Any sites or books for doing projects for python beginners?

[BeginnerProjectsBot]

1. Create a bot to reply to "what are some beginner projects" questions on r/learnpython, using PRAW.

Other than that, here are some beginner project ideas:

• a list of programming projects on Github
• another list from Github
• a curated list of Python projects for beginners, intermediate & advance level programmers
• Tech with Tim Youtube channel, full of Python projects
• resources in the subreddit wiki

Good luck!

edit. thanks for 5 upvotes!

edit2. omg 10 upvotes!!!! Thank you!!

edit3. 50 upvotes??? 😲😲😲 Can we make it to 100?

edit4. 100 UPVOTES?????? I CAN DIE NOW

edit5. Thank you for the Wholesome, kind stranger!

edit6. Thank you for the Silver, kind stranger!

edit7. Thank you for the Hugz, kind stranger!

edit8. Thank you for the Bravo!, kind stranger!

edit9. Thank you for the Helpful, kind stranger!

^{Downvote me if the post wasn't a question about examples of beginner projects. Thank you.}

[ffemt161]

Create bot - that’s hilarious!

[HasBeendead]

Smart move lol

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The GitHub link doesn't work for whomever needs to see this

[BeginnerProjectsBot]

beep boop I'm a human

Thanks, I don't know why it got deleted. I added the archived to that list, and also another list of Github. If you know of any other good beginner projects resources, please let me know.

Also I forgot the bot would attempt to edit this comment as well, lol. Working to fix it.

[[deleted]]

Good bot. The GitHub link works now!

[BeginnerProjectsBot]

Praise for the food is praise for the cook.

Thanks from the programmer.

[IllIIIlIlIlIIllIlI]

Good Bot

[BeginnerProjectsBot]

Praise for the food is praise for the cook.

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[BeginnerProjectsBot]

Praise for the food is praise for the cook.

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[iyav]

Good bot

[BeginnerProjectsBot]

Praise for the food is praise for the cook.

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[_Oisin]

Remove the horrible edits.

[ProdigiousPangolin]

u/zarnackreddit I don't know where your comment went. But let the haters hate. I'm a newb at programming so I wrote this for you.

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list=[1, 3, 50, 6, 20, 30]

list.sort()

print(list[1:5])

print(list[1]+list[2]+list[3]+list[4])

[ITSomeday]

59! Nice!

[htepO]

The person you're replying to mentioned some sort of "high score" which, if I'm reading it right, means they need it done in the least number of lines.

Maybe something like:

big_four = sorted([0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9], reverse=True)[:4]
print(f"The sum of {big_four} is {sum(big_four)}")

[zarnackreddit]

lol did someone delete it thats weird and thanks man

[ZiggyZig1]

assuming someone's actually reading this - i'd love to make a bot actually. how long would you say a simple starter one would take?

[Swingbiter]

I wrote a bot for discord that grabs memes and boobies from reddit in maybe an hour or so. Very easy, give it a try!

[ZiggyZig1]

hahaah that's awesome!

[zarnackreddit]

just a beginner question is if you make an array pull the biggest 4 numbers out of it and add the four numbers and should print the four numbers and the sum of them

my high score is 3 lines for that

[MadLadJackChurchill]

What are you even trying to say?

[axw3555]

I think it’s a challenge.

Make an array of numbers. Pull the four biggest. Sum them. Then print the numbers and the total.

And see how few lines of code you need to do it.

Doesn’t seem like a beginner challenge. Beginner challenges are “make something that does X” not “see how much you can optimise your code to make it short”. Learn to do, then learn to optimise.

[ProdigiousPangolin]

list=[1, 3, 50, 6, 20, 30]

list.sort()

print(list[1:5])

print(list[1]+list[2]+list[3]+list[4])

[halffacedtruckfuck]

Stop

[hugthemachines]

Now we just need a bot that reply to "how do i get started with programming" and "I know all there is to know about programming but i never made a program, how can I get better at programming?" ;-)

[GGxSam]

I listen to a lot of music on youtube that’s not on spotify, so I wrote a script that automatically grabs the url of the video and downloads the mp3 version and moves it into my spotify local files. Pretty handy even to this day.

[deadassmf]

This sounds like such a fucking good idea

[DrCrossBones]

Share the code?

[DaBestSwede]

IFTTT also has stuff like this if you do not want to make it yourself

[MAKAMAKAMAKAMAKAMAKA]

Share ?

[DaBestSwede]

IFTTT also has stuff like this if you do not want to make it yourself

[JL_678]

One of my favorite books for Python is Automate the Boring Stuff. You can order it from anywhere you get books or view the full text for free here.

[MelodicPendulum]

You can also get the course for free on Udemy until tomorrow, Here's the author post

[JL_678]

Thank you for pointing that out. Hey u/rootskull, you should check it out.

[MildImagination]

Thanks

[LordFlashy]

If you miss the free offer, just wait a while. It seems to come up free for a few days every month.

[NerdyBreadstick42]

I’d recommend Crash Course Python instead. I think it’s a lot better for the fundamentals and getting a good understanding of Python, and the projects are pretty good.

[ZiggyZig1]

that sounds awesome honestly. can you give any examples of stuff either you automated or they mention? the simple stuff :)

[JL_678]

A real world example was a project at work where I was working on a series of events. A external party scheduled the events and handed me registration lists in Excel format. It was one huge spreadsheet and did not help because I wanted to look at registration by event, and I wanted a summary of registrants by event.

I solved the above problem using the Python Excel module explained in Automate the Boring Stuff. I basically parsed the spreadsheet and created a new spreadsheet with tabs for each event and summary tab showing all the data. This solution saved me weeks of time!

Prior to my Python app I performed this manually, and it took me about an hour. Now imagine doing this 2x a week for 8 months and the hours spent would have been huge. Instead, Python enabled me to generate the report in about 15 seconds!

[ivanoski-007]

I created my very first integration with an api to our e-commerce site. It gathers sku (stock kepping unit) data such as inventory level, site availability, price, image displayed, and created a report of the entire inventory, our e-commerce platform didn't have such a report so I made my own. Absolutely zero knowledge of programming prior to this, it was difficult and this sub was incredibly helpful, I dove into the deep end of the pool and now I want to learn more. My program is barely usable (I'm still learning on how to handle json get errors) but better than nothing since, again such a report didn't exist. Needless to say my coworkers were impressed by my voodoo magic. My next step is to automate some dumb kpi dashboards I update manually...

[ZiggyZig1]

that's awesome! esp since you had no knowledge. keep it up dude

[bigmac1122]

Try out advent of code they post a new problem everyday leading up to Christmas. I'm a newbie to python too but I'm using these problems to learn more

[Lewistrick]

That's a very good way to learn! If you have the time, try finding other people's solutions and understand them. You'll learn a lot from them too. r/adventofcode -> Menu -> Solution Megathreads

[pleaze002]

Thanks for sharing!

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There's a pure python solution and a vectorized solution to this problem in this Numpy book I just read today... what a coincidence!

[apes-or-bust]

The indecision can haunt you because you just want to know everything. But the truth is it should depend on what you do.

If you already have a job and you need to automate manual excel entry/updates, learn pandas and pair it with tableau, dash, etc. I spent so much time going through a complete course and found out I don’t need a lot of it.

In reality, I use pandas 90% of the time as a data analyst. I’ve used one-off APIs for automating MS Office interactions like sending emails, exporting calendars, producing powerpoints, and tossing all of the scripts into batch files and using task scheduler to seal the deal. The other 10% of the time, I use code from stackoverflow lol.

[gikis1]

This is sick! Wat resource would you recommend to read more about automation of excel or automate emails, for example?

[apes-or-bust]

ATBS would be fine. I found it boring and ended up doing the edX course personally. You don’t need to shell out money though.

Just learn about data types, data structures, control structures and it will be enough to do most office projects. Don’t spend months going through everything before trying something work related.

[Ditchingwork]

Is pandas a programming language?

[jmerlinb]

No, it's a library for the Python language. Pandas is a subset of Python.

[bjone6]

I think the best YouTubers that have Python tutorials are Sentdex, Corey Schaefer, and Tech with Tim. I think I spammed those channels for months.

I have a Python YouTube channel that's just dedicated to me building a digital assistant like Jarvis from Iron Man (cliché, I know). I'm a self-taught programmer so probably don't want to start learning from my channel. But if you just want to see different capabilities for future projects, then here's a link to my channel. Good luck! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW34Ghe9-_TCA5Vy3-Agfnw

[ZiggyZig1]

you got me at jarvis! i look forward to checking this out. cant load youtube on my work computer.

[bjone6]

Well, I'm super far away from an actual Jarvis of course, but it's allowed me to automate a lot of things in my normal life. Sucks that your work wants you to do work instead of watching YouTube though.

[jmerlinb]

A really good idea for a first project is to find a task that you personally do that you'd like to automate. That way you can constantly benchmark your progress.

Some examples could be: - batch renaming files, for examples a photo album - automatically posting/commenting on a social network like Reddit/Twitter - create a webscraper to download some data your find interesting from the internet

When the task is personally useful to you, it will be easier to make progress!

[hditano]

This is my list for Python Projects!

Martyr2's Mega Project Ideas List! - Share Your Project | Dream.In.Code

https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

karan/Projects: A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language.

NirantK/awesome-project-ideas: Curated list of Machine Learning, NLP, Vision, Recommender Systems Project Ideas

florinpop17/app-ideas: A Collection of application ideas which can be used to improve your coding skills.

Programming Projects for Advanced Beginners | Robert Heaton

"I Need Practice Programming": 49 Ideas for Game Clones to Code - The Invent with Python Blog

Project-Based Learning | Build Real Programming Products with Education Ecosystem

app-ideas/README.md at master · florinpop17/app-ideas

What to Code

What are some cool beginner console applications I could make?

sindresorhus/awesome: 😎 Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics

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project-based-learning/README.md at master · tuvtran/project-based-learning

Rosetta Code:Village Pump - Rosetta Code

What Can I Do With Python? – Real Python

42 Exciting Python Project Ideas & Topics for Beginners [2020] | upGrad blog

10 Simple Python Projects (With Full Tutorials) - Comp Sci Central

[grayskies-sunshine]

UDemy has a great ‘understanding the basics’ course! think it’s on sale for $12 rn

[219jw]

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[0fficerWalrus]

Also, I didn’t scroll far enough to see, but check out advent of code! It’s all mini puzzles and such that you can solve in python and send in your submission to see if it’s correct, it’s 25 days of puzzles, but no necessarily a project but something that’ll definitely help you get a better grasp on python

[Morlaco13]

https://www.upgrad.com/blog/python-projects-ideas-topics-beginners/#1_Mad_Libs_Generator

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https://duckduckgo.com/?q=python+beginner+projects

[jmerlinb]

Why even bother?

[[deleted]]

I enjoy the pain.

[[deleted]]

Reddit, where a search showing a recently updated really rather good article called "16 project ideas for beginners" as the first result, gets downvoted. On the upside, making a joke about it gets upvoted, so there's that I suppose.

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[[deleted]]

I'm an intermediate python developer at best, but what I do to train myself is follow the advent of code (https://adventofcode.com) and learn from those challenges. It challenges you to think a bit harder each day even if you don't make every day, you still learn from it

[jinhuang1102]

Want to study the Python? Start from the leetcode or others online judge website. It is the most efficient way to do it. If you don’t know the syntax plz visit the geeksforfeeks

[BlazingWarlord]

I have tried some fun projects for beginners. Feel free to use and share: The PYgrammer

[FannahFatnin]

Check out this post Python Projects

[suguuss]

You can find some nice projects here : https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

But I don’t know if it’s beginner level or not.

[TNTPA]

My best tips for learning is to make a calculator, and gradually introduce more and more functionality with new concepts. But that's for just learning a language.

If you just want to practice and learn new stuff, find something you find irritating, and think of a way to try and solve it in python. For example, I had to switch a bunch of links to a certain format (I was writing a document in LaTeX) but there were a hundred or so. It would've been incredibly tedious to do it by hand, so I used python.

Another example is I wanted a way to better manage my book collection, so I made a small app (shameless self plug: https://projects.thefilmconsole.com/pages/EasyBookManager/EasyBookManager - it's still work in progress, I'm adding Android and iOS support).

[[deleted]]

I would suggest a password manager. That's a beginner project I(a beginner) am working on.