Coming up with something to code is the most difficult thing. I don't want something I will lose interest in, and I don't want something that will be pointless duplication.

I usually let my meandering interests and hobbies lead me towards good ideas for code. For instance, right now I am trying to learn go. I'd like to play friends over the Internet Go Server but it's a primitive telnet system, and the various clients don't work behind firewalls. I'd like to work on a very simple client-server app so I can play from behind the firewall on company time. Playing go on company time is a personal mandate.

This is the way I usually get a code idea. Something annoys me, and so I write some code to fix it.

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In reply to RE: Where do your code ideas come from? by neshura
in thread Where do your code ideas come from? by Macphisto

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