[Tutor] ideas for a simple program

[Brett Ritter]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:25 PM, walter weston <hacker0100 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> can I have some good ideas for simple programs, I have come to realize the
> hardest part of programming is not having a project to do and having to
> think of one haha

There are two ways to approach this:

1) Think of something that you'd like to have, personally, and start
work on it.  Here you'll have a real passion and benefit.

2) Tackle something that everyone does.  Here you'll have a lot of
examples and people will likely quickly understand your goals.

For #1 I can't help, though I recommend the attempt, but for #2 I
recommend small games.  A blackjack game or a computer that can play
tic-tac-toe with you are great ways to work on a well-defined problem
that won't take forever.

Once you feel sufficiently confident, helping on an open source
project as others suggest is a great way.
-- 
Brett Ritter / SwiftOne
swiftone at swiftone.org