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If you still want to continue, I reccomend something like this
Write a program that can measure lux. I am currently using an Adafruit APDS9960 for one project, but am measuring individual red, green, and blue intensities rather than lux. Adafruit has a how-to guide for this, and for almost everything they sell. The demo program that Adafruit provides with that sensor does this for you. You could literally use their demo program without any modification for this step.
Add into the program (from step #1) the ability to measure temperature and humidity. I have about 4 Adafruit SHT40's around my house. The how-to guide for this sensor is here. You will basically be copying code from here, into your first program. This would be good training for identifying
I recommend you also track soil moisture levels. This is easy to do with a capacitive moisture sensor. Here is their how-to guide, and here is the demo code on GitHub.
Other companies do this as well, like Sparkfun, DFRobot, Wemos/Lolin, etc. I feel that Adafruit goes the extra mile. And that has won my loyalty.
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