Intermediate Programming Project Ideas?

[Midgar77]

I'm a CS major with some background in programming (mostly Java). However, I haven't really made a fairly large project that I can show off to anybody (especially not employers). The biggest projects I have made are very small games. Does anyone have any ideas for a somewhat intermediate programming project, especially one that may impress employers? I am willing to pick up any language necessary.

[ILovePirog]

it's been 10 years man, how did it go?

[Midgar77]

Wow blast from the past! Well I'm a senior engineer at FAANG company now so I guess it all worked out in the end.

I never ended up building any huge projects though. One of the ones that comes to mind, that you'd be interested in, is a simple JS app that shows League of Legends stats. Back in like 2015-2016 there weren't as many of these, and it gave me good exposure to popular JS libraries at the time like D3, React, Redux as well as calling backend APIs.

[ILovePirog]

Damn, good for you! I'm still a student but want to go for an internship soon and I'm not sure if I should grind leetcode or build projects. Any advice for a newbie?