Basic Python Projects
In this section, we will provide a list of Python projects which are good for beginners. We are also providing source code with few python projects. If you already know the basics very well, you can jump to the intermediate section.
1. Hangman Project in Python
Project idea – The objective of this project is to implement the hangman game using Python. This project doesn’t require any external modules rather just need random and time modules of Python. Python functions and loops are enough to develop hangman game.
2. Rock Paper Scissor Python Game
Project idea – The rock paper scissors is a game played between two players that have few sets of rules. We can define the rules and conditions of who wins the game based on the player’s pattern.
3. Dice Rolling Simulator in Python
Project idea – The dice rolling simulator will imitate the experience of rolling a dice. It will generate a random number and the user can play again and again to get a number from the dice until the user decides to quit the program.
4. Email Slicer
Project idea – The email slicer is a handy program to get the username and domain name from an email address. You can customize and send a message to the user with this information.
5. Magic 8 Ball Game
Project idea – The magic 8 ball is a fortune-telling ball that is used to make decisions for a yes or no question. Create random 20 responses in which 10 are affirmative, five non-committal and five negative sentences and then we will give the user a random response from the 20 responses.
6. Target Practice Game
Project idea – Nowadays many shooting games are on the rise in the gaming community. Those games require extreme aiming capabilities by clicking at the accurate position as soon as possible. We can build a game where gamers can practice their shooting aim.
7. Alarm Clock with GUI
Project idea – The objective of this project is to implement an alarm clock using Python. Python consists of very useful libraries such as datetime and tkinter which help us to build project using the current date and time. Apart from this, they provide a user interface to set the alarm according to the requirement in 24-hour format.
8. Binary Search Algorithm
Project idea – The binary search algorithm is a very effective way to search for an element in a long list. The idea is to implement the algorithm that searches for an element in a list.
9. Desktop Notifier App in Python
Project idea – A desktop notifier app runs on your system and it will be used to send you notifications after every specific interval of time. You can use the libraries like notify2, requests, etc to build this app.
10. Clickomania Game
Project idea – In the game of clickomania you have to click on the group of boxes having the same colors. The goal is to remove as many boxes as possible and you will win when all the boxes are removed.
11. Python Battleship Game
Project idea – The battleship game can be played in the command line. The idea is to build a square matrix containing zeroes and we will place a battleship randomly on the grid. The user has a few chances to drop a bomb on the location of the ship by guessing. After a few incorrect guesses, the game will be over.
12. Python Story Generator
Project idea – The project will randomly create stories with a little bit of customizations. You can ask users to input a few words like name, action, etc and then it will modify the stories using your words.
13. Youtube Videos Downloader
Project idea – Another interesting project is to make a nice interface through which you can download youtube videos in different formats and video quality.
14. Python Website Blocker
Project idea – Build an application that can be used to block certain websites from opening. This is a very helpful program for students who want to focus on studies and don’t want any other distractions like social media.
15. Python Flappy Bird Game
Project idea – The flappy bird game developer made millions from a very simple game. It was a simple game but very tough to play, which led to frustrations in people and somehow it became very popular. Many other versions of the game have been made and you can build too! The rules are simple in which a bird has to avoid obstacles while flying.
Intermediate Python Projects
1. Python Tic Tac Toe Game
Project idea – The tic tac toe game is played between two players in which the user has to mark 3 consecutive ‘X’ or ‘O’ to win the game either horizontal, vertical or diagonally. You need to build a GUI for playing the game.
2. Calculator in Python
Project idea – Build a graphical user interface calculator using a library like Tkinter in which we build buttons to perform different operations and display results on the screen. You can further add functionalities for scientific calculations.
3. 2048 Game
Project idea – The 2048 game is a single-player game in which the user has to slide the tiles and the tiles with the same number will merge by combining their values. The game gets over when all the tiles are filled.
4. Countdown Clock and Timer
Project idea – You can build a desktop application of a countdown timer in which the user can set a timer and then when the time is completed, the app will notify the user that the time has ended. It’s a utility app for daily life tasks.
5. Currency Converter in Python
Project idea – Develop an exciting python project through which you can convert currencies. This is an intermediate level python project which will boost your confidence. For a user interface, we can use tkinter API
6. Random Password Generator in Python
Project idea – Creating a strong password is a tedious task. We can build an app to generate strong passwords randomly that contain alphabets, characters, and digits. The user can also copy the password so that they can directly paste it when creating the website.
7. Memory Puzzle Game
Project idea – Memory puzzle is a great game to enhance your concentration power and improve your memory. At the starting of the game, the shapes are displayed for a second and then they are covered. One by one user selects the tile to uncover and when two similar shapes are uncovered the score gets increased. This way we have to uncover all the pairs of shapes.
8. Slide Puzzle Game
Project idea – In this puzzle game you have to slide the tiles one by one in order to set every tile in the right place. There is only one space empty in the grid so while developing we have to make sure that the tile can only move on the empty places.
9. Python Snake Game
Project idea – I am sure everyone has played a snake game before. It is very interesting to understand and build your own version of the snake game. Try to modify and enhance the game with your imagination.
10. Random Wikipedia Article
Project idea – The project is used to get a random article from Wikipedia and then we ask the user if he wants to read the article or not. If the answer is yes then we show the article otherwise we fetch another random article.
11. Reddit Bot
Project idea – The Reddit is a great platform and we can program a bot to monitor subreddits. They can be automated to save a lot of our time and we can provide useful information to the Redditors.
12. Python Command-Line Application
Project idea – Python is great for building command-line applications. You can build a nice CLI interface through which you can send email to other people. It will ask the user for credentials and the data it needs to send and then we can send the data using a command line.
13. Instagram Bot in Python
Project idea – The Instagram bot project is made to automate some of the basic tasks like automatically liking, commenting or following people. The frequency must be low because sending excessive requests to Instagram servers might get you deactivated.
14. Steganography in Python
Project idea – Steganography is the art of hiding a message into another form such that no one can suspect the existence of the hidden message. For example, a message is hidden inside an image or a video. The project will be useful to hide messages inside the images.
15. Python Pacman Game
Project idea – The popular game Pacman is a fun project to build. We have to eat all the food in a maze and avoid all the ghosts that will come to eat the Pacman. This is a nice arcade game and will require you to have knowledge of the interacting game.
16. Python Ping Pong Game
Project idea – The ping pong game is a popular two-player game in which both players have a small rectangle slag with which they can hit the ball. The player who misses the ball will lose the game.
Advanced Python Projects
1. Speed Typing Test in Python
Project idea – The speed typing test is a project through which you can test your typing speed. You have to make a graphical user interface with a GUI library like Tkinter then the user has to type a random sentence and when the user completes the typing, we display the typing speed, accuracy, and words per minute.
2. Library Management System
Project idea – The objective of library management system project is to develop a real-time library project with Tkinter. This project provides functionalities like add book, issue book, return book, view book, delete book, etc.
3. Python Ludo Game
Project idea – The game of ludo is a strategy based game played between 4 players. Each player has 4 tokens that he needs to circulate in the defined path by rolling a dice. The other players can become an obstacle when they come in the same place and you have to restart your token again. The one who circulates all the four tokens wins.
4. Pinball Game
Project idea – Pinball game is a very interesting arcade game of all time. It will be fun to build a pinball game using pygame library and adding obstacles in the game. You will need some physics concepts to calculate the projection of the ball.
5. Content Aggregator
Project idea – This is an interesting python project. There are lots of information and articles on the internet. Finding good relevant content is hard so a content aggregator automatically searched the popular websites, looks for the relevant content and creates a list for you to browse the content. The user can select which content they want to look or not.
6. Bulk File Rename/ Image Resize Application
Project idea – Machine learning tasks include preprocessing of the data. We need to perform resize and rename images in bulk, so an application that can handle these tasks automatically will be very helpful for machine learning practitioners.
7. 2D Drag Racing Game
Project idea – Drag racing is a type of racing in which the drivers move in a straight line. To win the game, the driver has to change the car gears at the most optimal time. With this project, you can learn to build dynamic interactive parts of the game.
8. Keyboard Jump Game
Project idea – Keyboard jump is a speed typing game that helps in improving the typing speed of players. The character in our game will jump only when we type the word that is specified. When the user makes a few errors while typing then the game gets over and we can show the typing score.
9. Fruit Ninja Game
Project idea – The fruit ninja game is popular among kids where a fruit is thrown in the air and we have to slice the fruit by clicking on the fruit. This game can be implemented with pygame library of Python. You will have to animate the slicing of the fruit in this project.
10. Python File Explorer
Project idea – Build a file explorer and manager app through which you can explore the files in your system, manage, search and copy-paste them to different locations. This project will use a lot of knowledge on various concepts of Python programming language.
11. Plagiarism Checker in Python
Project idea – This is one of the most interesting Python projects. The idea behind this project is to build a GUI application that you can use to check for plagiarism. To build this project, you need to use a natural language processing library along with the Google search API that will fetch top articles to you.
12. Web Crawler in Python
Project idea – A web crawler is an automated program script that browses the world-wide-web and it can look and store the contents of the webpage. This process is called web crawling. The search engines like Google use this technique to find up to date information. Make sure to use the multithreading concept.
13. Music Player in Python
Project idea – Everyone enjoys listening to good music. You can have fun while learning by building a music player app. The music player can also search for the files in directories and building an interactive interface would be a challenging task that is best for advanced programmers.
14. Price Comparison Extension
Project idea – This is an amazing project in which you can compare prices of a product from multiple web sources. Just like on Trivago website, we can compare the hotel prices, similarly, we can compare the prices of a product on websites like Amazon, Snapdeal, Flipkart, etc and display the best offers.
15. Tetris Game
Project idea – I'm sure you have played the Tetris game before. It is a good project to build this game as it involves lots of transformation on the elements of the game based on the keyboard inputs.
16. Python Sudoku Game
Project idea – In the sudoku game we have a 9×9 grid and it contains 3×3 grids having numbers from 1 to 9. It’s a puzzle game and you have to find the missing numbers in empty places. Implement a timer in the game and also provide a way to display hint to the user.
17. Tank Fight Game
Project idea – In this game of Tank fight, there will be two players with their tanks and a mountain beneath them. Each player will shoot a missile one by one on each other and their goal is to make the other player fall out of the mountain cliff.
18. COVID-19 Spread Analysis with Python
Project idea – The objective of this project is to implement a real-time dashboard for COVID 19 spread analysis. This live dashboard will provide many insights for the study of coronavirus spread.
19. Instagram Photo Downloader Project
Project idea – The Instagram photo downloader project is used to download all the Instagram images of your friends. It will use your credentials to access your account and then search your friends to download their photos.