Ask HN: Projects for Learning a Language?

• adventofcode

  718 65 9.0 Scala

  Advent of Code solutions of 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023 in Scala (by sim642)

Advent of code is an interesting set of challenges, with a generally rising set of complexity. There are 6 years worth of 25 challenges.

https://adventofcode.com/

• project-based-learning

  195 166,637 0.0

  Curated list of project-based tutorials

  

Check out https://github.com/tuvtran/project-based-learning

• InfluxDB

  www.influxdata.com sponsored

  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• rustface

  2 375 5.1 Rust

  Face detection library for the Rust programming language

For learning Rust I just picked a random, reasonably sized C++ project and spent a few weeks porting it to Rust. Was more than enough to get a grip on the core language features and tools and start receiving interview offers for a Rust position (though I ultimately decided to stay on the JVM track). The project was a face detection library: https://github.com/atomashpolskiy/rustface

• mal

  94 9,803 0.0 Assembly

  mal - Make a Lisp

• 500lines

  8 29,032 0.0 JavaScript

  500 Lines or Less

• build-your-own-x

  164 141,173 2.5

  Discontinued 🤓 Build your own (insert technology here) [Moved to: https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x] (by danistefanovic)

  

I'm not sure whether you're looking for just an idea for a project or an actual walkthrough. But either way this index of "Build your own X" writeups should be useful: https://github.com/danistefanovic/build-your-own-x

Ideas include building a Git, shell, search engine, and of course compiler/programming language.

Suggest a related project