10 Simple Console App Ideas for C# Beginners

Today, I was thinking about what would be my first 10 C# projects to code, if I was learning C# again and I didn’t know anything other than plain C#.

Probably the first few projects you are going to make will be some sort of code challenges which are a really good way of enhancing your coding skill, but here I don’t want to talk about those, I want to focus more on real tools that can be used and you can show them to your friends as the cool things you are doing with the skills you just learned.

Yes, It’s not going to be ASP.NET or UNITY or any project needing some dependency on other advanced frameworks because the goal is to practice our newly learned C# skills and meanwhile create some cool projects.

Unit Converter

This can be a Console app that converts a unit to different measurement systems, like Meter to Kilometer or Yard, and so on. This app can be useful for length, temperature, area, weight, and time conversions. You can also recreate this app as a web or Windows app.

Currency Converter

This one is very close to the Unit Converter, but with the main difference of having currency exchange rates changing very frequently, so you would need to read these data from an API (like this) and do your conversion based on…