<story><title>Python Practice Projects</title><url>http://pythonpracticeprojects.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rbonvall</author><text>Very nice idea. Congrats!&lt;p&gt;One thing that I&amp;#x27;ve always thought it&amp;#x27;s missing is a list of projects in domains other than programming for motivating people that don&amp;#x27;t have an interest in programming per se.&lt;p&gt;That means no Lisp interpreters, no command-line palindrome detectors, no reverse polish calculators, no Collatz sequence generators, etc., but things like card game emulators, embroidery pattern creators, guitar tablature generators, etc. Thing that could pick the interest of people that have very specific interests, and that don&amp;#x27;t see how programming could be of any use to them.&lt;p&gt;When I was learning to code, I wrote a program for computing the standings table for soccer league tournaments. It was very rudimentary, but it kept me motivated since it did something useful for me, and I could tweak it ad infinitum.&lt;p&gt;Year later I taught programming to first-year university students, and a big problem was keeping them motivated. Every one of them had different interests, and computing large Mersenne primes was certainly not one of them.</text></comment>
<story><title>Python Practice Projects</title><url>http://pythonpracticeprojects.com/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mathattack</author><text>Great idea.  Thanks for sharing!&lt;p&gt;A test suite would be great (as mentioned by JadeNB) but is the end of this something along the lines of a MOOC or a programming community?</text></comment>