What should I program?
Hello all,
So I have finished my university courses for last semester, and have the rest of the month doing nothing (besides 2 days of work per week). So I though it would be a perfect time to start a programming project.
I have been wanting to build a web site / application, but I can't really think of any good ideas. Except for an 'ideacruncher' site, which is basically an entrepreneurial idea site which would consist of comments, recommendations, improvements, voting, etc on ideas. Although, this might not be very good, seeing as anyone could just steal an idea ^_^
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas for simple but useful web apps that need to be created
Thanks for any input!
So I have finished my university courses for last semester, and have the rest of the month doing nothing (besides 2 days of work per week). So I though it would be a perfect time to start a programming project.
I have been wanting to build a web site / application, but I can't really think of any good ideas. Except for an 'ideacruncher' site, which is basically an entrepreneurial idea site which would consist of comments, recommendations, improvements, voting, etc on ideas. Although, this might not be very good, seeing as anyone could just steal an idea ^_^
Just wondering if anyone has any ideas for simple but useful web apps that need to be created
Thanks for any input!
Hurm.. I was thinking something more along the lines of building a website that people will use or something. I have been wanting to do something like that for some time (and get a bit of profit from ads) :P
Nope.. you give me an idea, and I support it by ads.. meh.. I was thinking of an open source hardware site.. There is github for software, but nothing for hardware! ... Dunno, getting money from ads 1. Supports the site costs 2. Gives me incentive..
| would be a perfect time to start a programming project. |
"Programming project" != "application"
Join a free software project (or more than one). Get experience with bug/task tracking systems (bugzilla, jira, etc) and revision control (git, hg, subversion, etc). Test, debug,
@ascii
Basically each person could work on a part of a (say, robot..) one person could be in charge of motor controlling, another in charge of sensing devices, another in charge of chassis design, etc. and of course, there would be a project manager confirming that all of the parts would work together.
@Cubbi
Yes, I have contributed to various projects in the past using mainly git and svn. I am not completely sure if I want to start my OWN project yet.. know any good open source applications / projects that aren't TOO big? I tried contributing to large projects before but it took forever to find anything :-/
Tx
Basically each person could work on a part of a (say, robot..) one person could be in charge of motor controlling, another in charge of sensing devices, another in charge of chassis design, etc. and of course, there would be a project manager confirming that all of the parts would work together.
@Cubbi
Yes, I have contributed to various projects in the past using mainly git and svn. I am not completely sure if I want to start my OWN project yet.. know any good open source applications / projects that aren't TOO big? I tried contributing to large projects before but it took forever to find anything :-/
Tx
@OP: The "opensource hardware site" that you are describing is called a hackerspace: http://hackerspaces.org/wiki/ . Physical hardware needs a physical forum to exist in.
They inspire some pretty interesting projects and I'd say it's worth checking out at least once to see if it's the kind of thing you would enjoy.
They inspire some pretty interesting projects and I'd say it's worth checking out at least once to see if it's the kind of thing you would enjoy.
Wow.. that looks very interesting! Not QUITE what I was thinking, but I was actually looking for a type of club like that... thanks for the link :P I will def check it out...
Although, I was thinking more along the lines of people posting design layouts online so that others could expand on them or fork them... (github, hardware version) ... I dunno... it could be interesting.
Although, I was thinking more along the lines of people posting design layouts online so that others could expand on them or fork them... (github, hardware version) ... I dunno... it could be interesting.
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