Hi,

I am sort of new to Linux. But I love it.

I want to do something useful. I can't figure out what to do.

I was going through some GitHub projects and they are all quite interesting.

However, I want to start something myself.

What would be a good target to set for myself.

best,
nightrain

This is impossible to answer without knowing your skill, experience, and interests.

I have to agree with ResidentBiscuit on this one. Without knowing skill, experience, or interests we can't narrow it down for you. One would assume that since you are in the C++ site that you are wanting C++, but for all we know you could be doing Python, Perl, Ruby, Haskell, C, D, HTML5, etc. We don't know your interests so we don't know if you want game programming, web dev, networking, GUI programming, etc. Experience, without that we don't know whether to tell you Pong, simple RPG, FPS, Word program, web browser, irc client, etc.

my skill is beginner. however, i can learn quickly because ive learned c++ before.

preferably, i want to do something related to the shell.

or something involving files or something related to the network.

pull a richard stallman and rewrite all of the programs in the gnu /bin folder. thats a good starting point and teaches a lot of general techniques, like file io, regexing, networking, system level api

write a simple c program that keeps yours files synced up, for example I wanted all my music synced from one pc to a external drive. I think that was one of my first project. Something like DTSCode said, when starting out its better to try and recreate something that already exists just put your own spin on it.