Since I lost my Chinese Flash Card project on my laptop ( which has now been gone for 38 days because of crappy Customer Service. Interestingly enough, I only had it for 38 days before the unit hard drive crashed. Double trouble! ) I have been in a slump in my PERL programming. I program a good bit since it's my major in college but not for fun much more and not in PERL. Something I'm beginning to regret. As it stands, I am lacking both time and iniative to write more code. And I think it is mainly because I haven't found a project that interests me. The Chinese Flash Card program isn't going to be completed because I don't need it any more.
Where do your ideas for code come from? Is it just necessity that dictates your code, or fun, or just a wild idea? I know for someone like Chris the Radio Project ( which still amazes me to no end ) the idea was just a fun thing to try and it took off. What about the rest? Any tips on where to look for good projects to work on? I feel like if I don't code for fun again I'm going to lose all will to code at all. Coding just for class isn't a great experience.

Macphisto

Everyone has their demons....

In reply to Where do your code ideas come from? by Macphisto

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