Yes, and I've had my work used by others... Some of my mom's office billing sofware in the 80s/90s (turbopascal), and my big Achievement Accomplished for a Free Software loving developer.
Also a very generic but full featured form2mail script that had a couple hundred downloads and users
Always made my homework stuff try to be as interesting and feature complete as possible (it was mostly a cake walk so I had to challenge myself on projects and such), so things like a blackjack game that had the option to turn on display of a few methods of card counting and fiddle with shoe size as well as display actual statistics based on what cards were in deck (interesting to compare between the counting methods and the "well, we've looked at the deck and calculated...")