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Very nice idea. Congrats! One thing that I've always thought it's missing is a list of projects in domains other than programming for motivating people that do
by rbonvall 13y ago
Very nice idea. Congrats!
One thing that I've always thought it's missing is a list of projects in domains other than programming for motivating people that don't have an interest in programming per se.
That means no Lisp interpreters, no command-line palindrome detectors, no reverse polish calculators, no Collatz sequence generators, etc., but things like card game emulators, embroidery pattern creators, guitar tablature generators, etc. Thing that could pick the interest of people that have very specific interests, and that don't see how programming could be of any use to them.
When I was learning to code, I wrote a program for computing the standings table for soccer league tournaments. It was very rudimentary, but it kept me motivated since it did something useful for me, and I could tweak it ad infinitum.
Year later I taught programming to first-year university students, and a big problem was keeping them motivated. Every one of them had different interests, and computing large Mersenne primes was certainly not one of them.
- bmallerd 13y agoAuthor here. Great idea! The problem is that I would be hard pressed to come up with projects that are universally appealing. Crowd sourcing for ideas seems like a good option here. If you have a list of ideas please reach out. My contact can be found on the page :)