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Ask HN: Do any Lisp beginners want to collaborate on a simple project to learn?
I recently decided that I wanted to take my CS skills to the next level, and learning LISP(Scheme/Clojure/etc.) was going to be a part of that process.
I am fairly capable with code in general(did a lot in undergrad, and now work with C# professionally), but really just beginning with Scheme(bought SICP), and Clojure and I want to continue by making something cool, simple and open-source.
I really just want to gauge interest among people in a similar stage of learning, so we can possibly come together to write something simple, yet meaningful enough to motivate us. I'm open to really any major LISP, although it seems that Scheme and Clojure offer a nice community to work with.
If you are interested message me on Keybase at j3elam, or twitter at elamje. Or comment of course:)
- elamje 8y agoThis comment is just a note: A cool application that could be a good learning project and meaningful for HN could be something like a dead link notifier. The application could give you updates about if one of your HN posts links is now broken. About 5-10% of the older links I find on HN are no longer working, so it seems useful and could be useful outside of HN.
- SamReidHughes 8y agoThat's a neat idea. I'm not interested in this, but I found Racket to work quite nicely for making an HTML scraping library/framework.
- ebadder 8y agoHi, I am interested. I am an ok programmer - most of the work that I do is in Python and PowerShell. My exposure to Lisp is strictly limited to elisp and I am not very good at it (not the Dunning-Kruger not good, actually not good). However, I am willing to learn and can pick things up quickly. What do you have in mind?