Re: Perl and School

Find an itch that you want to scratch. I am sure that you don't want to scratch my itch, and I don't want to scratch yours. If you have some vested interest in the project, it will help to motivate you to complete it.

Perhaps something to help with a club or group you are a part of. How about checking with your local college or ACM chapter to see if they have a high school programming contest. How about starting up one of your own. What about an application to manage the stats for the $favorite_sport team that you are interested in. Keeping track of rankings for your local tidleywinks club.

--MidLifeXis

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Re^2: Perl and School by perl.j (Pilgrim) on Aug 24, 2011 at 19:14 UTC
Great ideas. I especially liked the "Sport Stats" idea. I am a basketball player so maybe that would't be a bad idea. --perl.j	[reply]
Re^3: Perl and School by davies (Monsignor) on Aug 25, 2011 at 08:58 UTC
Go to the basketball coach and ask what would be useful. That way, you will (a) avoid inventing a wheel that already exists, (b) start to experience the delight of writing for other people whose reaction is "I know that's what I said but it isn't what I meant". :-) Regards, John Davies	[reply]