Let's start a thread, I think that's a great idea! Next year my aim is to improve the tutorials available to people and write some of our own. You might like this, a cave generator tutorial I wrote a while ago for another site:
https://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/tutorials/gen...
There's also this post I wrote recently, for entering PROCJAM with no coding at all! All these projects give you an opportunity to think about generative systems without writing code yet:
http://www.procjam.com/2016/10/31/5-ways-to-enter-...
Hope some of that helps :)