10 Practical Project Ideas For Programming Beginners

Small to medium size project ideas to build up practical coding experience

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Based on my article on “Why many People Fail At Learning How To Code” where I gave the advice to not only rely on tutorials but rather gain practical experience by working on your own real projects, I want to share a list of examples for such kind of projects.

Why Many People Fail At Learning How To Code

The list is not bound to any framework or programming language. Still, some ideas may fit better with one framework or another.

1. Rebuild Snake

Snake is a classical computer game where you control a snake that can only go in four directions. Upwards, downwards, left, and right. The goal is to eat up as much as possible coins (or however you want to call the food that…