Ten Coding Projects to Build This Holiday

Finishing small projects beats starting big ones. Pick one from this list, build it in a few evenings and show it to somebody.

Start here

• Number guessing game in Python.
• Dice roller with an ASCII art dice face.
• About Me web page with your own colour palette.
• Rock, paper, scissors against the computer.
• Digital pet that gets hungry over time.

Level up

• Quiz app that reads questions from a list.
• Click game with a high score saved in the browser.
• Roblox obby with three stages and checkpoints.
• Turtle art generator that never repeats itself.
• Personal blog page listing everything you built.

 1import random
 2
 3secret = random.randint(1, 50)
 4guesses = 0
 5
 6while True:
 7    guess = int(input("Guess 1-50: "))
 8    guesses += 1
 9    if guess < secret:
10        print("Higher!")
11    elif guess > secret:
12        print("Lower!")
13    else:
14        print("Got it in", guesses, "guesses!")
15        break