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I am still a beginner programmer myself, but I do have a couple small projects under my belt. If you happen to have an office job, I would recommend trying to a

I am still a beginner programmer myself, but I do have a couple small projects under my belt. If you happen to have an office job, I would recommend trying to automate anything you do that involves copying information from one source to another. We have many different systems here and they do not communicate, i.e. our complaint database and our POS. I've made programs that make it so I don't have to retype information over and over again. My next project is to make it so that certain weird text documents are easier to read by exporting them to a excel document. This solution doesn't work for everyone, as some of us don't work at computers. But, if you can find a way to automate anything that you do, whether at home or at work, you'll have a good project to work on.

blastbeat 8y ago
Automating stuff and writing little helpers is a great idea. I would suggest to start with the command line. I wrote a lot of tools for it. Basically everything in daily life, which involves repetitive math, like tracking finances, calculate taxes etc, has the potential to be transformed into some tailored script in your favorite language. Also everything which transforms or involves text, is appropriate. For instance, instead of using some random smart phone app to train memory, I wrote a program to practice the mnemonic peg system by using the shell. Once you start writing such a tool, you will quickly run into practical problems, which need to be solved. Usually this triggers creativity and a learning effect.