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That's one way to learn time schedules, efficiency, but not necessarily the rest of a programmer skillset

I had the most prolific time of my life, when out of work for 6 months, and I did completely random projects, a 2048 solver (it was trendy at that time), a connect-four adversary and many others ideas https://caub.github.io/misc/, just imagination, learning the algorithms, also some leetcode for future interviews, still then this moment helped a lot building myself