EMemersonrsantos·Jul 11, 2023Submission
A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language
4 points · Open discussionkaran
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:page_with_curl: A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language.
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2013 | 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 7 | 4 | 3 |
| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 6 | 3 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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28 sourcesThere are several lists on github. Here is a couple:
https://github.com/karan/Projects
https://github.com/florinpop17/app-ideas
In Ask HN: Project ideas for someone learning to code?A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language
2 points · Open discussionhttps://github.com/karan/Projects (from a comment by
sandman007 on a similar question) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20112522
In Ask HN: How to come up with sideproject ideas?Side Projects List for hobby / Practise
https://github.com/karan/Projects
In Ask HN: Where do you find side project ideas?https://github.com/karan/Projects
A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language. Fine for beginner's projects in various domains along with solutions in many langs
In Ask HN: How do you find projects to work on?Someone already suggested that (https://github.com/karan/Projects/issues/87), but it doesn't seem to be incorporated.
In A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming languageA list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language
320 points · Open discussionCheckout https://github.com/karan/Projects
In Ask HN: Help with project ideasTo begin with, I would learn and come to grips with the syntax of a beginner-friendly language. Then, put to use what you’ve learned by trying to solve some beginner exercises. For example, you may want to take a look at https://github.com/karan/Projects and a recent discussion about the same at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14481941.
Get yourself familiar with some algorithms and data structures. Personally I benefited a lot from Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data Structures using Python: http://interactivepython.org/runestone/static/pythonds/index....
Learn HTML, CSS, JavaScript, some popular code libraries, a web framework, and a database language.
After the above, I would choose to work on a problem of my own. Think of something interesting and start building it. Start with something small. When you’re stuck on something,
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seek help.
Last but not least, find another serious learner and learn things together. You could also look for a mentor that’s willing to help.
Hope that helps.
A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language
483 points · Open discussionThis is a very popular question, here's some of the lists of answers that pop up in google:
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/2a9ygh/10...
https://github.com/karan/Projects
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-great-programming-projec...
Optional: take any of your old code that you're still interested in but is a mess or you want it to be more portable (Go static binaries) and rewrite it from scratch.
In Ask HN: Projects to learn a programming languageA list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language
2 points · Open discussionI like Hogan's book "Exercises for Programmers". Also, some lists of ideas I've recently been looking at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TyqD2_oDtiQIh_Y55J5RfeA9...
https://github.com/karan/Projects
http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/78802-martyr2s-mega-...
In Ask HN: What projects are perfect for learning a new language?What parent says, but to add to it here is a list I stumbled across which you may use for inspiration:
https://github.com/karan/Projects
In Ask HN: What projects are perfect for learning a new language?Showing the 15 most recent of 28 sources. Enable JavaScript to search and browse every indexed mention.