The Geek "Must Do Before You Die" Checklist

Re:The Geek "Must Do Before You Die" Checklist by helium on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @09:08AM (#836839)

My Programmer "Must do before you Die List"

1) Implement lisp within itself. Implement lisp in ruby.

2) Write your own Webserver.

3) Truly understand Haskell and Monads

4) Write a useful genetic algorithm.

5) Build a working neural net.

6) Finish SICP.

7) Work through and finish On Lisp.

8) Build a highly concurrent server application with erlang.

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Re:The Geek "Must Do Before You Die" Checklist by cubicle67 on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @09:45AM (#836902)

9) Write a graphical demo on the Vic20 or C64 in machine code

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Re:The Geek "Must Do Before You Die" Checklist by spatulon on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @10:40AM (#837045)

Nice list, but you'd be surprised how little work it takes to build a functional web server. I know I was when a couple of friends and I wrote one in Haskell on a rainy day. We were just scratching an intellectual itch of course, so there was plenty of stuff it didn't do, but it served up HTML files and images just fine.

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Re:The Geek "Must Do Before You Die" Checklist by jgrahamc on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @11:15AM (#837131)

I agree. Writing a web server is a trivial programming task. Want to do something networking that's hard? Write a TCP/IP stack: that was my first real job.

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Re:The Geek "Must Do Before You Die" Checklist by notthinking on Tuesday September 22, 2009 @09:57PM (#838465)

Same, wrote one for an assignment in a couple of hours, wasnt remotely a good idea to use it in the real world thou

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Re:The Geek "Must Do Before You Die" Checklist by kuzux on Wednesday September 23, 2009 @12:52PM (#839617)

I've already done 4 of them at the age of 17! (1,3,6,7)

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