If you build a to-do list app and see why it fails, you also gain understanding (hopefully). A lot of the stuff I built in my spare time as I was learning to c

If you build a to-do list app and see why it fails, you also gain understanding (hopefully). A lot of the stuff I built in my spare time as I was learning to code failed. Afterwards I questioned why and took that knowledge with me. Probably not as much as working with real business problems, but it is not for nought.