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Funnily enough, I was recruiting for a Python/Flask engineer not long ago. The best applicant didn't have side projects, but had a blog with over 150 articles on Python and Flask. He was rejected because they couldn't afford him. I've written about side projects, and two best ideas are usually: - Contribute to open source. I would contribute to the Flask project if that's what you want to use professionally. Either i…
I think you mean clinch, not clench :-). I'd suggest you write a project that uses a sql database, with or without an ORM. While there are plenty of NoSQL databases out there, sql syntax is fairly standard and universal for basic operations, so picking up some knowledge of it will set you apart. Also in a production environment you will almost always have multiple python servers running and feeding into a central dat…
It depends where you want to go with your career, If you're looking to get just any job, then a CMS is a good idea because it will teach you CRUD, and there's lots of jobs out there that are doing mostly CRUD. If you want to get into Data Engineering / backend engineering job, then write a crawler. Pick a subject, e.g. German music, or Podcasts, or Electronic components, or anything like that, and write a crawler fro…
I have a little more experience than op. I see you have experience about specific domains of programming. May I ask how do I find a list of domains from which I could choose what else I want to do ?
Love fishing? What about using tidal information, public available fishing trawler data, weather patterns to suggest optimal fishing spots?
Love electronics? Can you index the top 10 global electronics companies and make a super slick product search with automatically updating pricing.
Love cooking? The BBC is shutting down their recipe website, mirror it, index it and make a cool search tool.
What do you love?