Project ideas
1 12 Oct 2017 22:39 by u/goatsandbros
Doing a solid project is a great way to not only learn new tools, but deepen understanding of those already known. As such, could I ask for some interesting ideas for new projects? It doesn't have to be huge, just substantial enough to force anyone working on it to really dig in.
Thanks!
19 comments
0 u/Phil_Salamander 12 Oct 2017 22:42
What about an on-screen pop-up keyboard that can be completely operated with a mouse? That sounded better in my head.
0 u/RustyEquipment 12 Oct 2017 23:05
that;s available in Ease of Access... im sure you could program that, Bunch of buttons and onButton Click events
0 u/Phil_Salamander 12 Oct 2017 23:13
I was thinking more something that popped up with a mouse click, but then you can already do that with a logitech mouse and the East of Access app.
0 u/RustyEquipment 12 Oct 2017 23:24
now if you did a Mouse click to initiate a keyboard
Click A - then it shrinks to a text box with 'A' and starts predictive text
eh??? that would be nifty. So you click A and then move to S, then S and BAM! Ass!
0 u/RustyEquipment 12 Oct 2017 23:04
Thumbnail Creator - I am actually trying to do this myself
Java or such probably easiest.
Input - you have a folder of Images
Take that folder, one by one, take image Shrink image to be desired size (user input) - 50% or so Save thumbnail in subfolder
my lil idea
0 u/Morbo 13 Oct 2017 03:10
This is a pretty good learning project idea! Not too complex and not too easy. It will teach file I/O, handling graphics transforms and repeating operations over an arbitrary group of work items. Some stretch goals to this to bring additional learning opportunities once the base program is written could be:
Really advanced stuff could be multithreaded operation and automatic thumbnail production when new files are added to the source folder.
Hmm, I'm kind of interested in writing this now. It's different from the normal coding work I do and it sounds like a fun way to see how sharp my skills are after a long time away from desktop application development.
0 u/RustyEquipment 13 Oct 2017 04:23
Well I would love to see anything you come up with.... I am tutorial browsing trying to learn shit for it.... can barely understand the IDE and i have a computer sci degree =( been working too much in proprietary software languages and IDE's that big languages (java and such) are not common....=( specific skills that dont kill or pay my bills
0 u/MannKepetry 13 Oct 2017 04:57
i would prefer python with wxwidgets and wxformbuilder
0 u/voatHatesTheFirst 25 Oct 2017 21:12
5 lines with imagemagick in a bash script.
0 u/RustyEquipment 25 Oct 2017 22:50
ok i understand 5 lines, like $5 foot longs at Subway.
I know of BASH scripts when i did a measley semester of a UNIX course which eventually destroyed my computers cause of my negligence (i know, now i want to run a website formyself!)
please explain a bit more... maybe like 5 more lines worth
0 u/voatHatesTheFirst 25 Oct 2017 23:59
Lines of code, descriptive of size/complexity. In this case, pretty simple and easy. I was assuming it would be far more than that in Java.
In case your interested, here it is.
0 u/RustyEquipment 26 Oct 2017 00:20
interesting
Ok, i see what you are doing there. I dont know enough of any one language to be useful lol i mostly just know the concepts and work with proprietary languages which share some semblance to actual languages....
sucks
0 u/MannKepetry 13 Oct 2017 04:20
there was a project that collected the ownership information and relations of websites and displayed them in your browser. so if you are for example on skype.com it would show that it is owned by skype and that skype is owned by microsoft and so on depending on the length of the hirachy. the web site mysteriously disappeared and the github page has been deleted. here is a fork:
https://github.com/elypter/Truthbot-for-Chrome
https://github.com/elypter/Truthbot.org
a firefox addon was said to be in the making but code was never uploaded.
0 u/MannKepetry 13 Oct 2017 04:56
there is currently no gui application to set up swap on linux. it would be nice to have a tool where you could choose swap aprtitions, files, zram and their swappinesses.
0 u/roznak 13 Oct 2017 23:05
What this world need is affordable software for disabled people. When you look at all the existing products then you can clearly see massive big money grabs from sick people that have no other alternatives.
0 u/shill343 15 Oct 2017 09:49
There are a lot of open source projects that try to help disabled people. Most main linux Desktops like KDE and GNOME have accessibility settings that are really helpful.
0 u/ForgotMyName 16 Oct 2017 03:45
Disabled how? There's NVDA for the blind.
0 u/Sibyl041202 16 Oct 2017 02:32
Hey, guys!plwUO6tZ1
0 u/MrKequc 30 Nov 2017 10:05
Make a app that tracks subscriptions for popular services across the web. YouTube is where I'd start so that people don't need a Youtube account, can subscribe to any channel, receive notifications reliably that channels have new content, and possibly even offers the content across multiple video sharing websites to view it on.
That's what I'd build if I had any spare time.