What would be your dream project?
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I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope. My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has). What are you guys' dream projects?
Being a big fan of FORTH, I'd like to work on an object oriented FORTH (OOF). I've created my own variant of Fig-FORTH years ago for the Apple II and was vastly disappointed with the almost FORTH of the HP-48 calculators that was somewhat object oriented (the stack supported different variable types instead of just integers as most FORTHs do). I was convinced FORTH was a superior language years ago when a friend and I put together a system with extreme rapidity that no other language came close to. The ability to unit test down to a single verb (FORTH speak for command/function) without the scaffolding that other languages would have needed meant that when we zippered our code together it all worked first time. The interactive nature of FORTH means there is no Edit-Compile-Execute-Debug cycle. It truly sits in a gray area between interpreter and compiler. I really miss working in it.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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I'm trying to think good thoughts while doing a little project, and I started to think about what my dream project would be. I would probably not thrive in a 10-person team, on a 50-person project, doing some piece of industrial software for an oil company, so it would have to be somewhat limited in scope. My dream project would be something to help the teacher and students in the classroom, actually use their computers for learning and not just note-taking and cute learning games. (Here in Norway laptops are standard equipment for 8th graders and above; though nobody actually uses a tenth the potential a computer has). What are you guys' dream projects?
Either one of these would be my dream project. 1 - Working as a developer manager for the development portion of a business where things are not going well. I would require the authority to run the development team as I see fit, but helping the developers who work for me to get back on track, improve their skills and knowledge, and straighten our what is wrong with the software, preferably as a team. One example might be software product(s) still all or mostly in VB6, but needs to be in .NET (C# or VB.NET) and designed for desktop/laptop, mobile, web, touch and non-touch,. etc. in order to be competitive in the marketplace. 2 - Assembling my own "Skunkworks" team at a company to design the next generation of existing software, creating prototypes of new software, so the company is meeting marketplace changes. The team would need to understand the market the company works in, business in general, as well as advanced in their skills as developers. Build it, document it, test it with potential users, make changes as necessary, and once in a workable, useful state, turn it over to the regular development team to maintain and extend.