Here are some often recommended resources: Exercism , Hackinscience and Practicepython — these are all beginner friendly and difficulty levels are marked Adventofcode , Codewars , Python Morsels — includes more challenging exercises for intermediate to advanced level users Checkio , Codingame , Codecombat — gaming based challenges /r/dailyprogrammer — not active currently, but there's plenty of past challenges with discussions And here are some resources for projects: Projects with solutions — algorithms, data structures, networking, security, databases, etc Project based learning — web applications, bots, data science, machine learning, etc Books: The Big Book of Small Python Projects Tiny Python Projects /r/learnpython: What do you automate with Python at home? More on reddit.com

A completely useless but visually satisfying terminal animation effects library that performs visual effects on stdin. https://github.com/ChrisBuilds/terminaltexteffects More on reddit.com

Many beginners are mixing up coding (writing instructions in a programming language) with problem-solving (creating an algorithm) and their lack of knowledge of the programming language and how to use it is a distraction from the problem-solving. Keep the below in mind even more so when looking for projects. I strongly suggest you look to your interests, hobbies, obligations (family business, charity activities, work) to look for opportunities for new Python projects. You will learn far more about Python and programming when you work on something that resonates for you and that you have some domain knowledge of (or incentive to gain such knowledge in). For most programmers, the coding part is the final and easy bit. Order: Actually making sure the problem is properly understood. Often we start with only a vague understanding of the problem. Ensuring we know what outcome is required. What does good look like? How will the information be presented, will it be on-screen or in a file, or a database. Determining the data representation. Exactly what data is required, in what forms, where from. It is a one-off or lots of cycles or combining lots of information. Work out how to do things manually in the simplest possible way, explaining every little step (assume you are giving instructions to someone with learning difficulties), Computers are really dumb, and humans make lots of intuitive leaps and take short-cuts This is one of the hardest things to grasp when first learning to programme Computers don't mind repeating very boring things, so the simplest but repetitive manual approach is often a good approach to start with for a computer Later, you will learn different ways of selecting / developing an algorithm which doesn't depend on a manual approach For projects, give more consideration to the longer term use, maintenance, separation of concerns, testing, usability for others. More on reddit.com

Make projects related to what interests you about finance, ideally something that also has use for you personally or others. For example I’m an Econ grad and in the morning I like to read the news from Reuters. I noticed it was a pain to go through each category of news manually (I.e. rates, currencies etc.) so I made a web scraper that is set to run each morning going through the categories I provide, summarizes the top news articles articles by category with a link in case I want to read the whole story, and outputs it to a pdf so now I have everything aggregated. In terms of exercises leetcode and other sites are good (don’t become a terminal leetcoder though) to get exposed to programming concepts and how to make efficient algorithms. While the exercises are not directly related to finance, the concepts you learn like hashmaps, recursion etc will be useful as your projects get more complex. More on reddit.com