If it helps you in any way, what I try to do is to use a tutorial book to build my own app. For example a Flask tutorial that shows how to build a blog app, but I’m building a library. I still learn about the Flask way and I learn some building blocks but I have to figure out the equivalent for what I want to do. I often get stuck though.
So maybe showing the building blocks and letting you use them for something. You could perhaps show 2 or 3 suggested projects that are built with the building blocks. You show the generic version of the blocks, and then you figure out how to tweak them to make one of the 2 or 3 suggested projects.
Sort of buying the legos and then showing what you could do with them. But building it is up to you.
Good idea, originally I would just build something that already exists from scratch e.g. a UNIX-like OS complete with 99 footguns.
Now I've learned better I try to channel my learning energies into extending my portable, reusable library that solves common problems I can iterate, improve and port into future projects.
So maybe showing the building blocks and letting you use them for something. You could perhaps show 2 or 3 suggested projects that are built with the building blocks. You show the generic version of the blocks, and then you figure out how to tweak them to make one of the 2 or 3 suggested projects.
Sort of buying the legos and then showing what you could do with them. But building it is up to you.