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practical-tutorials/project-based-learning

Curated list of project-based tutorials

Stack

Python

GitHub topics

#beginner-project #cpp #golang #javascript #project #python

Updated: 2026-07-20
Lists: 0 list mentions
First commit: 2017-04-12
History: 32 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 289 open

275,379

stars

Forks: 35,482
Commits: 596 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +949 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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azl397985856/leetcode

LeetCode Solutions: A Record of My Problem Solving Journey.( leetcode题解，记录自己的leetcode解题之路。)

Stack

JavaScript npm Yarn

GitHub topics

#algo #algorithm #algorithms #algorithms-datastructures #computer-science #cpp

Updated: 2025-07-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2018-03-30
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 11 open

55,778

stars

Forks: 9,395
Commits: 1,818 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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WerWolv/ImHex

🔍 A Hex Editor for Reverse Engineers, Programmers and people who value their retinas when working at 3 AM.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#analyzer #binary-analysis #c-plus-plus #cpp #cybersecurity #dark-mode

Updated: 2026-07-21
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2020-11-10
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 373 open

54,248

stars

Forks: 2,421
Commits: 6,375 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

LizardByte/Sunshine

Self-hosted game stream host for Moonlight.

AI dev

Stack

C++ Vite Vue CMake npm uv

GitHub topics

#cpp #docker #flathub-pkg #game-stream #game-streaming #game-streaming-server

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2019-12-03
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 136 open

39,388

stars

Forks: 2,126
Commits: 3,428 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

aseprite/aseprite

Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux)

Stack

C++ CMake npm

GitHub topics

#animated-sprites #animation #aseprite #c-plus-plus #cpp #draw

Updated: 2026-07-17
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-09-18
History: 9 history points
License: Unknown
Issues: 1,986 open

38,148

stars

Forks: 8,397
Commits: 10,648 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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CMU-Perceptual-Computing-Lab/openpose

OpenPose: Real-time multi-person keypoint detection library for body, face, hands, and foot estimation

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#caffe #computer-vision #cpp #cvpr-2017 #deep-learning #face

Updated: 2024-08-03
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-04-24
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 359 open

34,291

stars

Forks: 8,041
Commits: 716 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

dragonflydb/dragonfly

A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached

AI dev

Stack

C++ Celery pytest CMake Go modules PEP 517

GitHub topics

#cache #cpp #database #fibers #in-memory #in-memory-database

Updated: 2026-07-15
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2021-11-16
History: 4 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 294 open

30,879

stars

Forks: 1,208
Commits: 5,018 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

Fincept-Corporation/FinceptTerminal

FinceptTerminal is a modern finance application offering advanced market analytics, investment research, and economic data tools, designed for interactive exploration and data-driven decision-making in a user-friendly environment.

Stack

C++ CMake

GitHub topics

#ai-agents #algorithmic-trading #bloomberg-terminal #cpp #finance #financial-markets

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2024-09-14
History: 3 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 27 open

28,728

stars

Forks: 4,022
Commits: 1,067 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

bee-san/Ciphey

⚡ Automatically decrypt encryptions without knowing the key or cipher, decode encodings, and crack hashes ⚡

Stack

Rust Cargo

GitHub topics

#artificial-intelligence #cipher #cpp #cryptography #ctf #ctf-tools

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2019-07-18
History: 3 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 2 open

21,553

stars

Forks: 1,437
Commits: 2,989 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

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RPCS3/rpcs3

PlayStation 3 emulator and debugger

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK

GitHub topics

#assembly-language #c #cpp #emulation #emulator #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-11-03
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 1,052 open

19,211

stars

Forks: 2,334
Commits: 19,598 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

kyleneideck/BackgroundMusic

Background Music, a macOS audio utility: automatically pause your music, set individual apps' volumes and record system audio.

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#audio #audio-utility #cpp #macos #objective-c

Updated: 2026-06-10
Lists: 4 list mentions
First commit: 2016-02-19
History: 11 history points
License: GPL-2.0
Issues: 537 open

19,154

stars

Forks: 775
Commits: 461 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

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questdb/questdb

QuestDB is a high performance, open-source, time-series database

AI dev

Stack

Java Symfony Cargo CMake Composer

GitHub topics

#capital-markets #cpp #database #financial-analysis #grafana #java

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-28
History: 6 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 887 open

17,204

stars

Forks: 1,632
Commits: 6,234 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

official-stockfish/Stockfish

A free and strong UCI chess engine

Stack

C++

GitHub topics

#chess #chess-engine #cpp #stockfish #uci

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-09-01
History: 33 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 36 open

16,144

stars

Forks: 2,962
Commits: 7,187 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +50 +0.3%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +10 +0.1%

Website GitHub

OpenRCT2/OpenRCT2

An open source re-implementation of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2 🎢

Stack

C++ Android CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp #discord #game #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2014-04-01
History: 10 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 1,606 open

15,993

stars

Forks: 1,856
Commits: 30,270 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

hoffstadt/DearPyGui

Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit for Python with minimal dependencies

Stack

C++ CMake PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#cpp #cross-platform #dearpygui #graphics #gui #imgui

Updated: 2026-05-13
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2020-05-28
History: 8 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 328 open

15,537

stars

Forks: 786
Commits: 3,052 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

dolphin-emu/dolphin

Dolphin is a GameCube / Wii emulator, allowing you to play games for these two platforms on PC with improvements.

Stack

C++ CMake .NET SDK Gradle

GitHub topics

#cpp #emulation #emulator #gamecube #wii

Updated: 2026-07-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2008-07-12
History: 9 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: Disabled

15,273

stars

Forks: 3,162
Commits: 45,904 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

organicmaps/organicmaps

🍃 Organic Maps is a free Android & iOS offline maps app for more than 6M travelers, tourists, hikers, and cyclists. It uses crowd-sourced OpenStreetMap data and is developed with love by the community. No ads, no tracking, no data collection, no crapware. Please donate to support the development!

AI dev

Stack

C++ Android CMake Gradle npm

GitHub topics

#android #app #cpp #cyclists #hacktoberfest #hikers

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2010-12-05
History: 6 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 3,413 open

14,875

stars

Forks: 1,511
Commits: 44,597 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

musescore/MuseScore

MuseScore is an open source and free music notation software. For support, contribution, bug reports, visit MuseScore.org. Fork and make pull requests!

AI dev

Stack

C++ CMake npm PDM

GitHub topics

#cpp #musescore #music-notation #musicxml #qt #sfz

Updated: 2026-07-19
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2012-05-24
History: 7 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 4,037 open

14,861

stars

Forks: 3,223
Commits: 48,378 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

SFTtech/openage

Clone of the Age of Empires II engine 🚀

Stack

Python CMake pip

GitHub topics

#age-of-empires #c-plus-plus #cmake #cpp #cpp20 #engine

Updated: 2026-07-04
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2013-08-22
History: 35 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 214 open

14,338

stars

Forks: 1,261
Commits: 5,817 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +13 +0.1%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

isl-org/Open3D

Open3D: A Modern Library for 3D Data Processing

AI dev

Stack

C++ Flask CMake npm PEP 517

GitHub topics

#3d #3d-perception #arm #computer-graphics #cpp #cuda

Updated: 2026-07-14
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-07-28
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 1,364 open

13,789

stars

Forks: 2,586
Commits: 4,248 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

skypjack/entt

Gaming meets modern C++ - a fast and reliable entity component system (ECS) and much more

Stack

C++ CMake Conan

GitHub topics

#architectural-patterns #cpp #cpp17 #cpp20 #data-oriented #data-oriented-design

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-03-24
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 15 open

12,888

stars

Forks: 1,102
Commits: 7,395 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

heroiclabs/nakama

Scalable open-source game backend server: multiplayer, matchmaking, leaderboards, chat, and social features for games.

AI dev

Stack

Go Cobra gRPC Go Go modules

GitHub topics

#backend #cpp #csharp #dotnet #game #game-backend

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2017-01-13
History: 2 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 124 open

12,850

stars

Forks: 1,438
Commits: 1,823 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

vesoft-inc/nebula

A distributed, fast open-source graph database featuring horizontal scalability and high availability

Stack

C++ pytest CMake pip

GitHub topics

#big-data #cpp #database #distributed #distributed-systems #graph

Updated: 2026-05-18
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2018-08-14
History: 4 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 678 open

12,290

stars

Forks: 1,323
Commits: 3,552 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

manticoresoftware/manticoresearch

Open-source search database for full-text, vector, and hybrid search with real-time indexing and SQL.

Stack

C++ Cargo CMake Go modules

GitHub topics

#api #bm25 #cpp #database #full-text-search #hacktoberfest

Updated: 2026-07-24
Lists: 3 list mentions
First commit: 2003-11-19
History: 7 history points
License: GPL-3.0
Issues: 694 open

11,906

stars

Forks: 633
Commits: 13,896 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: 0 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: 0 0.0%

Website GitHub

libvips/libvips

A fast image processing library with low memory needs.

Stack

C Meson pip

GitHub topics

#c #cpp #gif #graphicsmagick #hdr #heic

Updated: 2026-07-11
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2007-08-29
History: 5 history points
License: LGPL-2.1
Issues: 80 open

11,471

stars

Forks: 783
Commits: 9,357 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

PointCloudLibrary/pcl

Point Cloud Library (PCL)

Stack

C++ CMake pip

GitHub topics

#c-plus-plus #computer-vision #cpp #pcl #point-cloud #pointcloud

Updated: 2026-06-03
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2011-03-02
History: 5 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 583 open

11,055

stars

Forks: 4,689
Commits: 14,683 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

cython/cython

The most widely used Python to C compiler

Stack

Cython PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#big-data #c #cpp #cpython #cpython-extensions #cython

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2006-10-20
History: 8 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,513 open

10,788

stars

Forks: 1,613
Commits: 20,452 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

yugabyte/yugabyte-db

YugabyteDB - the cloud native distributed SQL database for mission-critical applications.

AI dev

Stack

C Cobra Express FastAPI gRPC Go CMake Go modules Gradle

GitHub topics

#cloud-native #cpp #database #distributed-database #distributed-sql #distributed-sql-database

Updated: 2026-07-26
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2005-06-28
History: 65 history points
License: NOASSERTION
Issues: 8,117 open

10,426

stars

Forks: 1,292
Commits: 39,058 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: +4 0.0%
Commit velocity, last 7 days: +118 +0.3%

Website GitHub

rapidsai/cudf

cuDF - GPU DataFrame Library

AI dev

Stack

C++ pytest CMake Maven PEP 517

GitHub topics

#arrow #cpp #cuda #cudf #dask #data-analysis

Updated: 2026-07-16
Lists: 2 list mentions
First commit: 2017-03-30
History: 7 history points
License: Apache-2.0
Issues: 1,260 open

9,704

stars

Forks: 1,080
Commits: 44,047 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

conan-io/conan

Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager

Stack

Python PEP 517 pip

GitHub topics

#c #cmake #conan #cplusplus #cpp #multi-platform

Updated: 2026-07-09
Lists: 1 list mention
First commit: 2015-12-01
History: 2 history points
License: MIT
Issues: 561 open

9,434

stars

Forks: 1,120
Commits: 9,834 commits
Star growth, last 7 days: No 7-day history
Commit velocity, last 7 days: No 7-day history

Website GitHub

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