Hello, I’m an engineer working on establishing a DevOps culture at my company.
Back in my university days, I had similar concerns. So, I’d like to share some of my own experiences and project recommendations.

Recommendations

1. Kaggle Data Analysis []

   • Practice analyzing publicly available datasets on Kaggle
   • Gain experience in data preprocessing, visualization, model training/evaluation
   • Competing in actual Kaggle competitions can be highly motivating

2. Build a Tetris Game []

   • Implement simple game logic to train programming problem-solving skills
   • Learn about event loops, state management, and UI rendering
   • See tangible results immediately, which gives a strong sense of accomplishment

3. Build a Chatbot (without using OpenAI API) []

   • Gain hands-on experience with a basic Natural Language Processing (NLP) pipeline
   • Start with a simple rule-based chatbot → gradually apply ML models
   • Understand the structure of conversational systems (input → processing → response)

I hope my experiences and project ideas will be helpful to you! GOOD LUCK