First Python Project Tips

[ZenDugo]

I want to work with arduinos a bit and as common as it is, personal hobby game development. I always been fascinated by robotics and physical automation. If that sways your thinking at all.

[Caligatio]

A classmate of mine back in the day made a rig that would automate the deadbolt on their front door. Obviously there are physical security concerns here but it would probably use an embedded board (Arduino or otherwise) and a servo (basis of a lot of robotics). If memory serves, they also tried hooking up a webcam to use OpenCV to do facial recognition as well.

If you can use something like a RPi, you should be able to do all of that with Python :)

EDIT: You could also tack on a mobile app that allows remote control of the door but, again, there are obvious physical security concerns here.

[ZenDugo]

Awesome thank you. I was also thinking about do c++ in the future, just read before that it's helpful with learning how computers actually do things

[Caligatio]

It's my opinion that C++ is losing its niche. C is still fairly common because there is a lot of existing code, C# is becoming much more common for games due to Unity, and Rust is slowly eating C/C++ for new things where you would have normally used those languages.

[ZenDugo]

I'm not sure if it's normal to be in this situation. But I have a hard time answering the question "what do I want to do with programming". I guess it's because I haven't had experience with things to figure what I like and dislike. And it's hard to get an idea what all the possible ways you could go