What to do next after basics?

Question

I have learned the basics of a few languages, Python, C++. I have learned syntax and loops and control flow. How do I use what I learned to actually make something? I kind of feel lost for what to do next.

Answer 1

Write an application which solves a practical problem that you have in your daily life.
It will give you
- a clear goal
- motivation to finish your project
- satisfaction for creating something useful
- bragging rights :)

Answer 2

Data Structures

Answer 3

Solve the challenges of sites like sololearn, leetcode, hackerrank, etc. For more practical work Learn Django. Or learn one of the kivy or pyqt libraries to build GUI applications

Answer 4

Alex whats you purpose for learning the languages? if you can identify that, it will make your answer a little bit easier. some examples:
web development/application
machine learning/ai/data science
data analysis
games
back end development
image/video/audio processing
there are other areas that i did not list.
data analysis was my interest so i focused on pandas, numpy, and sqlalchemy.