If you’re at the beginning of your programming journey or you’re just starting to learn how to code, I recommend that you start thinking about building a Capstone project.

If you don’t know what a Capstone project is, it’s a term I took from my university. It refers to a project we would build at the end of the semester after acquiring a new set of skills. Throughout the semester, we’d gain skills and knowledge, and then put all of that theory into practice by building a final Capstone project.

In your case, this Capstone project would showcase all the coding skills you’ve learned in the past couple of months. You’d apply everything you’ve learned to build one cohesive project.

When I was in university, my Capstone project involved taking songs, extracting the different instruments from them, and outputting each instrument into separate track files. Those instrument track files could then be used to generate new songs. This project was really interesting—it involved a lot of research and coding.

The key idea here is that we built something practical, exciting, and fun. It helped us become better at the software development process.

In this video, I’m going to cover three main reasons why you should start building your Capstone project as soon as possible. I know it’s tempting for beginners to focus on exercises and mini-projects without diving into a Capstone project because it might seem intimidating.

However, by the end of this video, I hope you’ll have enough good reasons to start planning and building your Capstone project in the next few months.

Thank you for watching, and happy coding! 💻
-Henrik