Ask HN: Looking for programming projects during summer-vacation
I'm looking for project-ideas to practice coding JavaScript during summer, when I'm on vacation.
Do you guys have any ideas? Thanks in advance!
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Not concrete ideas, but some principles:
1. Pick something you will find useful, or
2. Have a hard deadline: "I must build X in 3 days."
This will help you actually finish your project. (Long version here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/09/09/side-projects/)
1. Pick something you will find useful, or
2. Have a hard deadline: "I must build X in 3 days."
This will help you actually finish your project. (Long version here: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/09/09/side-projects/)
Thank you!
Build something that will help you.
Pick up some throwaway projects.
I did something like this - https://100dayz.js.org/
Now I look back at them & I say 'God did I write this' but it might help u with some of ur own ideas
Pick up some throwaway projects.
I did something like this - https://100dayz.js.org/
Now I look back at them & I say 'God did I write this' but it might help u with some of ur own ideas
Thanks!
I'm a big fan of looking at open data sets published by towns and cities, and then coming up with creative ways to make that information easily accessible online.
I've seen towns and cities that aren't big enough to have the budget to make a great website that makes all of the city's data easy discoverable. But many of them publish open data sets, and you can use the data to create an interesting project that is also useful to the city's residents.
Many large cities publish lots of open data, too. In general, there are already lots of apps built with the data sets from large cities, so I prefer to focus on the smaller ones because doing so offers a chance to create something that hasn't been done before. You might find that the data published by larger cities is more interesting, though.
Here are a few links to get started:
https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/ https://data.boston.gov/ https://data.ny.gov/ http://data.ottawa.ca/ https://data.albanyny.gov/ http://www.a2gov.org/services/data/Pages/default.aspx
I've seen towns and cities that aren't big enough to have the budget to make a great website that makes all of the city's data easy discoverable. But many of them publish open data sets, and you can use the data to create an interesting project that is also useful to the city's residents.
Many large cities publish lots of open data, too. In general, there are already lots of apps built with the data sets from large cities, so I prefer to focus on the smaller ones because doing so offers a chance to create something that hasn't been done before. You might find that the data published by larger cities is more interesting, though.
Here are a few links to get started:
https://opendata.cityofnewyork.us/ https://data.boston.gov/ https://data.ny.gov/ http://data.ottawa.ca/ https://data.albanyny.gov/ http://www.a2gov.org/services/data/Pages/default.aspx
If you want something that doesn't require any other distractions (HTML, CSS etc) then Node.js is a good choice. How about writing a RESTful API or something else self-contained? A while ago I wrote a thing which tweets train delays in a few days https://github.com/dcrichards/gordon to try out some recent Node.js features and libraries.
Read lots of science fiction. Find something awesome that no one thinks computers can do yet. Pare it down or limit its focus to the point where it might be practical. Don't worry about how much memory it uses or how slow it would run. Then, try to program it. You will push your limits and if it's awesome enough, people will be deeply impressed with your ability.
Create an inverse of Tupper's self-referential formula where you can, given a drawing, find the corresponding value of K that draws that image.
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SQL practice tool
I find that online tools for practicing SQL queries are inadequate, they suffer from numerous problems that should be addressed by any (new) alternative.
Specific question sets, i.e. a decent collection of division problems A website that looks like it was rendered this century Insight into the dataset being tested against. If I was to build this I could imagine doing it using a Python back-end and I would build in a roll-back feature if the tool ever was to be extended to such a degree that one may practice directives such as UPDATE.
Nice to have the opportunity to load in one's own dataset.
Inspiration http://sqlfiddle.com/ http://sqlzoo.net/
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The developer app
Get a message (Tip of the day) each day with, for instance, hotkeys for your favorite editor/editors/programming languages.
Let users skip certain tips: "I already know this" so that it doesn't appear again. Use a Bloom-filter.
Let users select "Emacs", "Vim", "Git", etc.
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Create a Boolean Algebra interpreter in Common Lisp
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Implement an HTTP server with persistent connections in Haskell (look at STM)
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Use Markov chains to create lolcats
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Implement a Shell in Rust (posix grammar is here = http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3...)
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Implement various algorithms and data structures,
A-star Actor Model AVL Tree Binary Search Binary Search Tree Bloom-filter Breath-first iterative search Bucket/Radix sort Circular queue Closest pair HashMap In-place quicksort K-way merge Murmurhash Priority Queue Set Stack Union Find Vector (dynamic array)
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SQL practice tool
I find that online tools for practicing SQL queries are inadequate, they suffer from numerous problems that should be addressed by any (new) alternative.
Specific question sets, i.e. a decent collection of division problems A website that looks like it was rendered this century Insight into the dataset being tested against. If I was to build this I could imagine doing it using a Python back-end and I would build in a roll-back feature if the tool ever was to be extended to such a degree that one may practice directives such as UPDATE.
Nice to have the opportunity to load in one's own dataset.
Inspiration http://sqlfiddle.com/ http://sqlzoo.net/
===
The developer app
Get a message (Tip of the day) each day with, for instance, hotkeys for your favorite editor/editors/programming languages.
Let users skip certain tips: "I already know this" so that it doesn't appear again. Use a Bloom-filter.
Let users select "Emacs", "Vim", "Git", etc.
===
Create a Boolean Algebra interpreter in Common Lisp
===
Implement an HTTP server with persistent connections in Haskell (look at STM)
===
Use Markov chains to create lolcats
===
Implement a Shell in Rust (posix grammar is here = http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/V3...)
===
Implement various algorithms and data structures,
A-star Actor Model AVL Tree Binary Search Binary Search Tree Bloom-filter Breath-first iterative search Bucket/Radix sort Circular queue Closest pair HashMap In-place quicksort K-way merge Murmurhash Priority Queue Set Stack Union Find Vector (dynamic array)