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TLDR

A collection of hundreds of concrete programming project ideas organized by category, designed to give you something real to build when you finish a tutorial and don't know what to make next.

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    What it does
      Programming project ideas
      Skill-building prompts
      Language-agnostic list
    Categories
      Algorithms and data
      Networking
      Web development
      Databases
    Audience
      Learners
      New programmers
      Career changers
    Benefits
      Portfolio building
      Practice beyond tutorials
      Self-directed learning
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What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Pick a project idea to practice a new programming language by building something non-trivial rather than following a step-by-step tutorial.

USE CASE 2

Build a small portfolio of projects spanning networking, data structures, and web development by working through the categorized list.

USE CASE 3

Use as a self-directed curriculum after finishing a coding course when you want practical experience across many programming domains.

How does it compare?

karan/projectsminimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-stringsgokumohandas/made-with-ml
Stars47,63047,62947,507
LanguagePythonJupyter Notebook
Setup difficultyeasyeasymoderate
Complexity1/51/54/5
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How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min

In plain English

Mega Project List is a collection of programming challenge ideas intended to help developers practice and build their skills in any programming language they choose. The problem it addresses is a common one among learners: after finishing a tutorial or course, they don't know what to build next. This list provides hundreds of concrete, self-contained project ideas ranging from simple to complex, removing the "what should I make?" mental block entirely. The projects are organized into categories like Numbers, Classic Algorithms, Data Structures, Text processing, Networking, Web development, Databases, and Security. Each entry is a brief description of a program to build, for example, writing a Fibonacci sequence generator, a mortgage calculator, a credit card validator, a chat server, or a simple web scraper. The descriptions are intentionally language-agnostic: there is no prescribed technology stack, so a beginner can tackle them in Python while an experienced developer might use Rust or Go. A companion repository collects community-submitted solutions in many different languages if you want to compare approaches after solving one yourself. You would use this when you want coding practice beyond toy exercises, when you are learning a new programming language and need non-trivial problems to apply it to, or when you want to build a portfolio of small projects demonstrating different skills. It functions as a self-directed curriculum rather than a structured course, you pick whichever projects interest you, work through them at your own pace, and gain practical experience across many programming domains. There is no installation or tooling required, the repository is purely a Markdown list of ideas.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I'm learning Rust. Suggest a medium-difficulty project from the mega-project-list Networking category and walk me through the key parts I'd need to implement.
Prompt 2
Using the mega-project-list, give me a step-by-step plan to build a mortgage calculator in Python, including input validation and printing an amortization schedule.
Prompt 3
I want to build a simple chat server from the mega-project-list. Help me implement it in Go with basic client-server communication over TCP sockets.
Prompt 4
From the mega-project-list, I want to build a credit card validator. Implement it in JavaScript using the Luhn algorithm with test cases.

Frequently asked questions

What is projects?

A collection of hundreds of concrete programming project ideas organized by category, designed to give you something real to build when you finish a tutorial and don't know what to make next.

How hard is projects to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is projects for?

Mainly developer.

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