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@NuclearOatmeal@beige.party @hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange Although I haven’t done these to bootstrap a brand new language so far, a couple of smallish projects I did just for fun that would be good for this task: 1. Sudoku solver. This was a problem in an online puzzle series I did a while back and it’s pretty straightforward to do a somewhat naive but useful solver and then, as you describe, make it better as you understand more techniques. 2. Classical cipher codebreaking (the kind you can break with just stats; a surprisingly large number of the old-school pre-Enigma or so ciphers, even ones that are much harder to crack than newspaper-style cryptograms, are fun to figure out how to break that way).