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jobylie66837yThere are a lot of pages with simple ideas and projects for beginners, like calculators
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You now know the basics, what yiu do with that knowledge is up to you.
Like a little bird being kicked out of a nest, fly little birdy bro! -
There's a reddit with daily programming challenges:
https://reddit.com/r/...
But otherwise just think of something and start creating it. The best way to learn is to actually create something. -
Outside of "joke apps," one of the first "big" projects I wrote to get my head around what I had been learning was a game of Monopoly.
First iteration was 6 players on one computer, second iteration was a rewrite and was an 8 player LAN version.
As @divil mentioned, pick a challenge or project that you actually want to work on. It will keep your interest peaked, and you will have something "show offable" at the end. -
bardia323677y@jobylie Yeah, I did that two years ago, but it didn't make me excited about programming. It's not something that I can express myself with or that's really fulfilling.
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bardia323677y@fattymiller but where to? I need to know that I'm going *somewhere* before leaping.
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s3id0n11577yYou just gotta look harder man. There are plenty of sites like that: exercism.io (not a typo, actually exercism with an e) and codewars.com
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jobylie66837yI also think that learning how to program and project ideas is a hen and egg sort of thing. Especially because most of what I know about coding is self taught, I stumble about real world problems, have no idea how to solve them and then read into the topic.
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@bardia323 honestly, for me it was for the challenge of "taming the computer" (also that i was the only coder in my friend circle - which automatically made me better than them ;))
"Where to" is defined by you, I guess? Programming can be both boring and challenging at the same time.
If you enjoy the constant chase of conquering a machine who thinks it is smarter than you, the career can be quite rewarding.
I must warn you though, you will forever have complaints and issues that you can't vent to "the normals," and you will live a life of talking to people who's eyes just glaze over whenever you try.
It's fucking ridiculous how there's a great deal of websites to introduce beginners to programming and how there's not a single resource to take the beginners and teach them to do something with all the syntax they've learned.
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