What's an inexpensive hobby most people can get into?

• wxmeow

  2 0 0.0 Python

  flask weather app

Direct link to the zip for wxmeow: https://github.com/dave-c-vt/wxmeow/archive/refs/heads/master.zip

• Lila

  591 10,799 10.0 Scala

  Discontinued ♞ lichess.org: the forever free, adless and open source chess server ♞ [Moved to: https://github.com/lichess-org/lila] (by ornicar)

  

lichess.org has great puzzles, learning tools, and matchmaking (some people only do chess puzzles for their brain).

• InfluxDB

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  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.

  

• curriculum

  1,835 8,807 10.0 JavaScript

  The open curriculum for learning web development

  

Now you have a good intro to figure out if you like it or not. If you do then it would be time to figure out what kind of programming you want to get into. If it's web development, then something like the odin project would be a good option. There are other online programs for specific other things you may want to get into like data science, mobile app development, desktop development, etc. But a well rounded set of classes on basic programming and computer science fundamentals on coursera/udacity/edx/etc plus some specific books and programs towards a desired career path can be done for free or very cheap.

• codewars.com

  712 2,080 3.5

  Issue tracker for Codewars

  

Aside from what everyone else has mentioned, if you don't want to go straight from a beginner's course to open source software development, a good option is to do "gamified" programming exercises on sites like codewars.com and hackerrank.com

• Rack

  156 3,970 8.6 C++

  The virtual Eurorack studio (by VCVRack)

  

Eurorack modular synthesizers and sound design are noted for being very expensive and inaccessible, but in the last few years an open source software company has modeled the format quite well and released a new software system called VCV Rack. https://vcvrack.com/

• online-go.com

  202 1,171 9.8 TypeScript

  Source code for the Online-Go.com web interface

  

Play online for free, https://online-go.com/ or get your self an inexpensive board and some stones. A lifetime of joy and learning.

• Puts Debuggerer

  3,157 91 3.5 Ruby

  Ruby library for improved puts debugging, automatically displaying bonus useful information such as source line number and source code.

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• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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