Having a project that I personally cared about. In my case I wanted to text flight information to the family when one of us was traveling. We were saving our

Having a project that I personally cared about. In my case I wanted to text flight information to the family when one of us was traveling. We were saving our flights in a google spreadsheet. I hadn't coded anything beyond tutorials at this point, and had no real understanding of, well, anything. It took me 6 months to write a script that would take data from the Google Sheet and use a free text api to send an SMS to 6 numbers. I learned: - APIs - cron - python scripting - deploying to a server Mind you, everything I learned, I've now learned a better way for. But at the time it was invaluable for confidence and building interest. Good luck!