You’ve invested in good coding training, and you have some basic code skills under your belt. If you’re up for the challenge, let go of the training and start working on your own, self-directed project. You could choose to make a website, an app, or whatever is relevant to what you’re learning.
Building a project is the fun part of coding, and it gives you useful experience. So you want to make sure you do it well. We’ve put together a series of articles to help you accomplish this. First, you’ll gather ideas for your first programming project. Next, you’ll plan your programming project and lastly, build it!
Steps to Starting Your First Programming Project
The following pages will walk you through the process of planning and building your coding project.
Step 1: Ideas for Coding Projects
Struggling to decide what you should make for your coding project? Here are seven ideas that you can either use as is, or use as inspiration to think of your own ideas.
Step 2: How to Plan a Coding Project
Don’t rush into your project blindly. Planning your project is an important part of the process, and it will give you a better end result. Here’s how to turn your idea into a proper plan.
Step 3: How to Build a Coding Project
Time to turn your plan into a reality. Learn about useful coding tools, sources of help for when you get stuck, and putting the finishing touches on your product.
Let’s get started with Ideas for Coding Projects.
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