10 Coding Prompts for Your Portfolio
Ideas to accelerate and upgrade your coding skills
In the writing community, there are writing prompts. In the coding community, coding prompts are often limited to the realms of hackathons, which can be intimidating for some.
Whether you’re new to the game, looking for a new job, or are just looking to up your skills, you’re going to need to create in order to improve. It’s the nature of the career path.
But, sometimes, we run out of ideas, and that’s why I’ve decided to come up with ten coding prompts, complete with requirement guidelines, to help you get started. You’ll need to come up with your own interface designs and stretch your creativity in order to fulfill the requirements.
You can do one, a few, or all. A lot of the projects below will give you commercial, full stack skills, and can be completed within a month or two. This is absolutely achievable if you put in the hours after work and on the weekends. The point of the prompts is to get you coding while building a commercially viable project for your portfolio.
I’ve structured each project like an informal business case, with just enough details to get you started. Don’t over think your features, or else your project is going to balloon and you’ll run out of time. The goal is to create…
