I second GrandFather's suggestion. Some web scraping could generate some interest. For example something as simple as a script that downloads all the images in a gallery. "Hey, thet are all on the same server, in the same path and their names end with integers from 001 to 147." Clickety click. "See, you give this twenty line script the URL of the first image and it downloads them all." And another one that downloads the gallery list, extracts the image URLs, downloads them, "clicks" the Next page link, etc. Fairly simple, needs few modules.