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Build a site like hacker news using flask. I say flask instead of Django because it’s more light weight. I would also recommend doing something math heavy like following the stock market (even if you don’t spend actual money) just to learn the ins and outs and what’s slow/etc in python (spoiler: use numpy.)

Those are the two things I did, I came from PHP and until a 2.5 years ago I never touched python but I work with it full time (also react, which I didn’t know at all when I started.)

What you build isn’t all that important, or the language. Most languages can be picked up on the job. But doing some personal projects + a couple leet code or project Euler problems a week will make one a good programmer in 3 months. You want the personal projects to act as a portfolio you can show off to recruiters though.