Open Source Project for a Beginner

jeramyRR

Hi all, I'm pretty much a noob programmer, but I think that I've learned all the very basics pretty well. Now I feel like in order to advance my skills I need to work on some project. My problem is, I don't have any good ideas of my own so I'd like to find a good open source project to work on. Can any of you guys/gals suggest an open source project that I could join that wouldn't be too complicated for me to help out with? Thanks, Jeramy

Emmanuel Medina

Maybe try creating an account on github and checking out the Open Source projects there? you could contribute or fork a project and work on it, or get some ideas from there Github[^]

Lost User

What languages do you know?

jeramyRR

I've taken college courses with C, C++, and some C#.

GenJerDan

You could browse here[^] and see what interests you.

No dogs or cats are in the classroom. My Mu[sic] My Films My Windows Programs, etc.

S Houghtelin

If a you have open source you best have the Doctor look at them, he can give you an ointment to put on them... Seriously though, there a number of really good articles here at CodeProject that provide source code along with good documentation . Click on the Articles tab above and peruse the nicely categorized articles, I'm sure you'll find many projects of interest. Best of all most of the authors a very willing to provide assistance as long as you show an earnest attempt to implementing and understanding of their work. There are some very good writers here.

It was broke, so I fixed it.

Andrew Rissing

Though, this is probably an obvious statement....I'd recommend doing something that interests you, as it might give you some direction/help when looking for a professional career. From a resume perspective, if you're applying for a new job with some experience in related topics, it might help you land a new job and give you some idea if you'd even like that kind of work.

ForestHymn

Andrew has a point here. Take a look at your interests and see how you can apply your programming knowledge to that. Think about movies, sports, social, science, government, weather, etc. There's a ton of APIs out there that you could use to keep track of anything or to visualize. Do you use facebook or twitter? Write some code to parse your friends or followers or something and build graphs based on content. Also, you could check out http://www.mashery.com/[^] Start small so that you get something functional as quickly as possible. This way you can gain confidence and build momentum by adding more features and so forth. Try to find something that interests you personally, and that you would want to use, and get excited about. Be sure to use some type of version control system as soon as you start. Create a simple RTF document to list some basic features and build tasks from that. If you can't get to something make another list for "Future Tasks".

kdmote

or here: Ohloh.net[^]- Ohloh is a free, public directory of Free and Open Source Software and the contributors who create and maintain it. They've indexed over a half million projects (and scored them in a variety of ways).

Walter Thomas Jr

Hi Jeramy, I`m having trouble with CODE VALIDATIONS, I have a Webpage that I need help Validating? If you could assist me with my project, I will be obliged! Tomtotom1 Marketing Promotions, LLC document.write("Welcome to Thomas Services Intl. LCC. <p> Today's date is " & Date()) document.write("<br />") document.write("The time is Eastern " & Time())

tomtotom1 marketing promotions **Click here for more information and to get more free help with your Credit files![