Possible Duplicate: Do you ever code just for fun? I've been working as a 'professional' coder for about 11 years. (I've just turned 33.) When I talk to my collegues, I find that most of them actually don't program any more in their spare time - 8 (or 10 :)) hours a day at their job is enough for them. A difference between me a...
I am learning WPF these days, it's my desire to develop a WPF app. I am looking for ideas on what should I develop. I have ideas like PhotoBrowser, Twitter client.., but i dont know how to start with Has anyone developed something as a part of learning, if yes then please share it here. Thanks in advance! ...
I'm trying to put a small team (about 5 members to start) together here in Honolulu to work on some hobby-projects members and myself may have, and am having trouble finding other members who are interested. Basically am just looking for people with skills in JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, PHP, MYSQL, and anything else in that realm. I've pos...
If you learned programming in the 80's (or late 70's/early 90's), you may have been influenced by one of the many hobby programming magazines that existed at the time - RUN Magazine for the C64/C128, Byte, Compute!, Ahoy!, and many others. Articles in these magazines may have sparked your imagination about graphics, games, and logic, an...
I'm a hobby developer and i want to put my projects in some sort of version control. I've tried several version control systems (git i think, SVN, mercurial, bazaar) and they were a pain in the neck for one or more of the following reasons: There was no GUI interface The gui interface it DID have was clunky it plastered decals all over...
It will be a gift for a family member. He's older, a retired school teacher and likes to tinker with programming mostly as a mental exercise to stop the old brain cells from gelatinizing. I've seen him make some pretty creative and moderately complex games in BASIC (QBASIC to be precise), and I believe he's making the hop to VB.NET this...
I am going to be starting a hobby project with a friend, but we'll need some (free) way to organize and store tasks, bugs, etc. What tool do you recommend to do this? can something stored through an SVN server work? (Offline would be best) ...
Possible Duplicates: What is the easiest language to start with? What programming language should I choose for an independent study language? Well as the title says what language is good for a beginner and for a hobby? I'll probably be making some games or desktop apps with a gui most likely. I'll be working in Windows and Li...
Of course I know about the most obvious thing to do... continue writing some programs! But what exactly should one do after learning a language? I personally just finished reading K&R ANSI C. So do I now find a book on the Windows API or something? I'm not exactly someone who will be doing some hardcore programming aside from hobby and ...
During the years of learning programming and all, I was very enthusiastic and started lots of hobby projects. Among them are a Direct3D game, a synchronization framework, a music player and organizer, an Irrlicht racing game, and so on. But now that I'm a student there's hardly any time left for working on them (working on both a studen...
Does anyone know of a project that uses some sort of interpreted runtime, to perhaps, as an example will take a before and after text file and generate and run a program in its-self to produce the after result. So it combines a bit of lexing, fuzzy logic, NN, backtracking, genetic programing, software FPGA. I am interested in how the ho...
I am a marketing manager in technology. Over ten years ago I programmed a little (scripts, C) and really liked doing small programs. Today I do not get to program at all for work. I do write blogs and use all kind of applications beyond the casual user. But I do not get a chance to do programming. What would be a good place to start w...
I'd like to learn a new programming language and while learning it, I want to write a replacement for Microsoft Works Calendar. That is, a fairly simple calendar software which supports reminders and has a specific reminder process which will display the reminders even if the calendar itself is not running. I would like to hear your sugg...