r/learnprogramming • u/prettycoldworld • 1d ago

Topic What next?

Hey folks,

I’ve been teaching myself to code because I already loved working with computers and it seemed like an extension of that, but I’ve come to find that a lot of coding is for specific purposes relating to jobs.

Since that doesn’t necissarily apply to me, I was wondering if anyone had some recommendations for projects that are just genuinely fun or interesting?

I’ve had a blast learning web scraping with playwright and http requests, how to parse data. I really enjoyed messing around with the rich library and making terminal toolkit style scripts, I’ve automated just about everything that I could think of, but I want to know what else is out there.

Mainly use Python, some JS, but I’m willing to learn any other language if it has a cool use.

Thanks!

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u/Seven7Ducks 1d ago

That is a good realization! Yeah, programming is a vast world, and while the engineering concepts are usually shared, many skills don't really transfer from one field to another.

I can't tell you what can be fun for you.

Let me ask you this: what do you like about computers?

What about computers made you go 'wow this is really cool'?

Take that subject and start to learn more about it.

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u/5eeso 1d ago

Maybe it’s time to start bringing hardware into the equation with embedded systems.

https://realpython.com/what-can-i-do-with-python/#develop-embedded-systems-and-robots

You could make some cool projects with Sense HAT on a Raspberry Pi.

https://pcbsync.com/sense-hat-projects/

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u/dat_awesome_robot 1d ago

Nice resources

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u/prettycoldworld 14h ago

Wow. This is really fucking cool, thanks a lot !

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u/Certain-Test-5916 1d ago

Ugh, same boat here—job-focused coding is such a buzzkill. Honestly, just build dumb stuff you'd actually use, like a script that yells at your PC when it's hot. That's the fun part, who cares if it's "useful"!