Re: Perl and School

[MidLifeXis]

in reply to 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.

[perl.j]

Great ideas. I especially liked the "Sport Stats" idea. I am a basketball player so maybe that would't be a bad idea.

[davies]

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