Yes! There are so many comments in this thread and the last one makes the most sensible suggestion: get involved with an open source project! There is absolute

Yes! There are so many comments in this thread and the last one makes the most sensible suggestion: get involved with an open source project! There is absolutely no point in starting your own projects from scratch when you've never seen other projects. Fixing random bugs in open source software is great for two reasons: 1) you'll need to read large amounts of code to find bugs, learning things about coding style, design patterns, architecture along the way 2) What you do actually has a purpose. There's nothing more boring than programming for the sake of "practice"