Lessons teach you the bricks - projects make you lay them. The scaffolding fades a little more with every tier.
Build a tiny program of your own - a greeter that remembers names.
A journal that saves a line a day and reads it back.
Plot constellations from a list of points - your plan, your code.
Pull a forecast and paint it in the console.
A small web service that serves dreams on request. The first real one.
