What do you like to do? Generally &quot;hacking&quot; on projects is easier when you&#x27;re hacking on something you like.<p>If you have nothing in particular you want to do, maybe you can hack on some open source projects?<p>If you&#x27;ve literally just downloaded python and downloaded&#x2F;opened IDLE, then maybe you should learn some python: I&#x27;ve found this guide to be very useful:
<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swaroopch.com&#x2F;notes&#x2F;python&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.swaroopch.com&#x2F;notes&#x2F;python&#x2F;</a><p>An interesting thing you could probably do with not-too-much python is some light data analysis. Download an interesting data dump from somewhere, and see if you can use python to parse through the data and find anything interesting.<p>Free Forex Historical Data (an old link I had saved, not sure if it will be any good): <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.histdata.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.histdata.com&#x2F;</a><p>Uber pickup data from NYC: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fivethirtyeight&#x2F;uber-tlc-foil-response" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;fivethirtyeight&#x2F;uber-tlc-foil-response</a><p>Maybe even find some data related to something you&#x27;re interested in, and do some analysis with that.