See also: Robert Heaton's series of project prompts "Programming Projects for Advanced Beginners." https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/08/programming-projects-for

See also: Robert Heaton's series of project prompts "Programming Projects for Advanced Beginners." https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/08/programming-projects-for-advanced-beginners/ https://robertheaton.com/2018/12/08/programming-projects-for... The project goals are not as lofty as those proposed by nishanth_v's friend, but Mr. Heaton goes the extra mile to turn each project idea into a step by step mini-curriculum with lots of extension points. Then, he goes another extra mile by allowing readers to email in their buggy projects, and running a companion series where he teaches people how to debug / fix / improve their code by refactoring reader's attempts at the "...Advanced Beginners" projects. Recommended.