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This is a bit odd, but let me explain. I made a Python script that shows the current phase of the moon as ASCII art , like this: .........@ ..............@@ ..................@@ ....................@@ .....................@@@ .....................@@@ .....................@@@ .....................@@@ ....................@@ ..................@@ ..............@@ .........@ (Currently a new moon started a few days ago.) The "automation" part is I set it (in the .zshrc file) to run whenever I open a new terminal window. It's a nice, quick, subtle way to show me the passage of time. I never really look at the moon nor think about it much. But now I have something that lets me look forward to full moons, half moons, etc. The Python script also has an animation mode and options for resizing, using different text characters, etc. I used an LLM to port it to Rust to have a compiled version. It's marginally "useful" but I do see it almost every day. More on reddit.com

I really like web scraping. You could try learning a little bit about BeautifuSoup and take some data from websites. I find it very fun. I've done over 5 projects that are actually helpful. For example, I made one to get the letter day for my school out of their website and have the program send me an email every morning so I know if I should leave at 7 AM or 8 AM. Only downside is that I gotta have my PC on all night which is not very kind to the power bill. I don't use that as much though.

You could also make your first Tictactoe game... I made one that was terrible but I learned so much from it and then I made it again using classes. Looks so much better now and I learned a whole bunch of things.

I also enjoy making little functions that are related to mathematics. I look up a formula and I try to make a function out of it. That can get you into matplotlib and pandas which is super fun! I'm still kind of a newbie with Python since I joined only 2 months ago but I've learned so much just by looking things up and having followed a Python course beforehand.

There's just so much that you can do with Python. You could even do web development and GUIs. I have no idea how any of that works yet but eventually I'll get there. Start small and don't make the mistake I did of trying to learn everything at once. It will only slow you down and frustrate you a lot. Even to the point of quitting for a while.

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If you like gaming and would like to venture into beginner games, I would recommend the wonderful world of MUDs. There is a full-blown engine written in Python called evennia if you want to get started with helping out or designing your own games. If you are interested in gaming AI there is a neat project called Serpent AI made with creating smart AI in games. If you are into designing application on the web I would look into Tornado , Django , and Flask If you would like to create apps that can be distributed on a variety of environments such as iOS, Android, and various other cross-platforms look into kivy If you are more scientifically orientated and looking to create applications that would aid in the scientific community, there are a plethora of projects all around. Some examples are: OpenCV - for an open source computer vision library. spaCy - a python library for natural language processing. Prophet - a high quality time-series forecasting library I would recommend that you go on github and “explore” the different open source projects that are hosted in Python. And also... fuckit... if you just want everything related to science including modules you will probably never use, just download anaconda and be done with it. If you want to get your hands dirty with Machine Learning there is tensorflow and/or PyTorch for the curious critters, and they have some simple tutorials to get you started. If you want to mess with 3D animation there is blender that uses Python as its scripting language. If you are interested in IoT and embedded systems I would look into raspberrypi coupled with wiringpi gives you full access to the GPIO. For machine learning at a small scale, I highly recommend the Jetson Nano by NVIDIA. If you want to create powerful programs that are optimized and require C like speed look into cython I use this extensively in our RD lab. If GUIs are your thing there are a number of frameworks available while tkinter and PyQt are the most versatile and popular. where pyqt is python bindings to the popular Qt C++ gui framework. With addition from u/aussie_bob Expanding the IoT capabilities there does exist a firmware development library in python called micropython that allows running firmware code on specific microcontrollers. Be aware for any Arduino folks, the ultimate downfall with a project like this is the amount of overhead needed in order to have a runtime python interpreter. Straight from the docs suggests that it uses 256Kb of Program space and up to 20k RAM. It's tough to answer your questions mainly because Python is such a versatile language and it can be utilized in a broad spectrum of disciplines. It's also tough to answer your “point me to a useful and practical program” to create because each program out there is practical to someone in some way. Also a few words of encouragement. If someone ever laughs at ideas that you have, sucker punch them in the fucking face. Today's technology was built and invented by people who were laughed and mocked at. Bombarded with ideas that it wasn't possible. Let's look at the most recent amazing feat for humankind. We reconstructed a picture of a black hole, there were many who concluded this was impossible and only reserved for the sci-fi community. Take out your phone that is in your pocket, and gaze upon one of the most life-changing technologies to have ever been created. Imagine in 2001 you told people you could look at porn on your phone, they would have laughed in your face. Imagine what folks would have said 10 years ago if we told them about the possibilities of constructing a quantum computer? Or self landing rockets, made possible by SpaceX. No. Fuck folks who dampen innovation and creativity. There is never such a thing as a stupid idea. Edit: Cool, thanks for the silver and gold More on reddit.com