Interesting Project?
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Hey all, I am a relatively new programmer. Worked in the industry for about a year and a half as a junior and obviously college and uni before that. I am looking for something fun to do, but also something that I could possibly display to other prospective employers, maybe something that could be of use for the development community. Does anyone have any ideas of what I could write in c# that would.. 1. Be quite fun to develop 2. Be interesting an unusual that I could maybe blog about 3. Help me to learn more about fundamental processes and practices I am basically a bit fed up with the usual run of the mill development I do here and am looking for a project that I could turn around to someone and say "hey, I did that". Any idea's would be welcome. Cheers.
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Hey all, I am a relatively new programmer. Worked in the industry for about a year and a half as a junior and obviously college and uni before that. I am looking for something fun to do, but also something that I could possibly display to other prospective employers, maybe something that could be of use for the development community. Does anyone have any ideas of what I could write in c# that would.. 1. Be quite fun to develop 2. Be interesting an unusual that I could maybe blog about 3. Help me to learn more about fundamental processes and practices I am basically a bit fed up with the usual run of the mill development I do here and am looking for a project that I could turn around to someone and say "hey, I did that". Any idea's would be welcome. Cheers.
daviiie wrote:
1. Be quite fun to develop
What do you find fun?
daviiie wrote:
2. Be interesting an unusual that I could maybe blog about
What do you regard as interesting?
daviiie wrote:
3. Help me to learn more about fundamental processes and practices
What do you need to learn? If it is a website you could look at the Web Client Software Factory as it is part of the work by the pattens and practices group in Microsoft (lots of good processes to learn from that). If that doesn't interest you there are other projects from that group that might spark something.
Upcoming FREE developer events: * Glasgow: SQL Server Managed Objects AND Reporting Services ... My website
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daviiie wrote:
1. Be quite fun to develop
What do you find fun?
daviiie wrote:
2. Be interesting an unusual that I could maybe blog about
What do you regard as interesting?
daviiie wrote:
3. Help me to learn more about fundamental processes and practices
What do you need to learn? If it is a website you could look at the Web Client Software Factory as it is part of the work by the pattens and practices group in Microsoft (lots of good processes to learn from that). If that doesn't interest you there are other projects from that group that might spark something.
Upcoming FREE developer events: * Glasgow: SQL Server Managed Objects AND Reporting Services ... My website
Hi Colin, I suppose I should have been more specific. By fun and interesting I would consider projects that use funky data structures or algorithms. I like stuff thats a little bit out of the box. I recently, just for the fun of it, developed an swi-prolog web service (the web service was already pre-written by swi, i'm not that good) to query a topic map database structure to dynamically assert facts which can in turn be queried by prolog and dumped out as xml which is picked up by a flex front end and displayed. I will eventually get around to making some kind of simple natural language processor and inference engine type thing and get it hosted. As fun as that was though I consider it something that would be seen as a "hobbyist" computing activity that although would be an interesting thing to display at an interview isn't really that relevant when it comes to c# .net jobs. I'd like something that utalizes c# in perhaps an unusual way, or to write a tool that perhaps would be very useful to other developers. A dll that I could open source and say "you know that thing that always annoys you when you program, well I've done something that sidesteps it...enjoy". I was thinking perhaps about some sort of encoding library because I am always running into problems with encodings and have yet to find something that makes my life easier. Nice website by the way, I am a fellow Glasweigien although I don't currently live in the uk.