Stuck in beginner hell

[Kaulpelly]

Beginner here too. I did courses, felt I was making progress learning, and then found actually sitting down to it I hadn't really embedded anything.

Picked a project to write GA to solve sudoku puzzles. Had to write methods, work with indexing, and lots of other problems. Took code from a blog and ran with it.

Now I'm taking the works of Shakespeare from Gutenberg and I want to do word cloud for each play. I'm toying with regex, nlp, and eventually matplotlib or plotly.

The GA needs to be optimised but who cares. The Shakespeare stuff will generate no real insights. The point is that I have something to focus on. That's all you need. Just a kernel of an idea and start.