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Project idea for learning (lemmy.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev

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I'm a retired Unix sysadmin. Over the years I've built things in COBOL, FORTAN, C, perl, rexx, PHP, visual basic, various Unix shells and maybe others. Nothing has been a real "application" - mostly just utilities to help me get things done.

Now that I'm retired, and it's cold outside, I'm curious to try some more coding - and I have an idea.

The music communities here seem to post links to YouTube. I generally use Lemmy on my phone but don't use YouTube, or listen to music, on my phone if I can help it. I'd like to scrape a music community here and add the songs posted to a playlist in my musicbrainz account.

Does that sound like a reasonable learner project? Any suggestions for language and libraries appreciated. My preferred IDE is vim on bash and I have a home server running Linux where this could run as a daemon, or be scheduled.

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[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

Sounds like you have some programming experience already but whether this is a reasonable learner project I think depends a bit in what kind of things you're trying to learn but it sounds pretty good to me.

If you're going to be using a familiar language and you already know how to call web APIs pretty comfortably I think that's a pretty reasonable pet project assuming musicbrainz has a public API (I'm not familiar with it unfortunately).

If you're wanting to learn some more basic stuff around calling APIs and maybe a language you're not familiar with I would start by making something super dumb that calls an unauthenticated public API like a weather service or something.

Ultimately I think your project idea sounds good though, just making a suggestion for something even simpler you could try as a stepping stone if you need to.

Either way congrats on your retirement! Have fun with all the interesting projects you decide to pursue.