Ask HN: Suggestions for fun side projects

Posted by Nib on Thursday June 25, 2015 @06:49PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I'm getting bored since a few days. I have 2 more days full of free time, so I'm wondering if there's something someone wants me to make for them. Maybe something that'll be useful to me as well, and others in the community ?

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Re:Ask HN: Suggestions for fun side projects by tacone on Thursday June 25, 2015 @07:16PM (#9781524)

You perhaps should give some hints on your field of expertise: webapps? phone apps? embedded programming? droids?

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Re:Ask HN: Suggestions for fun side projects by Nib on Thursday June 25, 2015 @09:11PM (#9781965)

I mean, I'm looking to learn, so, even if you give me a project which I don't know anything about, I'll be happier...

Otherwise, I'm a competitive programmer(algorithms and stuff), but I did do web development a year or so back...

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Re:Ask HN: Suggestions for fun side projects by akg_67 on Thursday June 25, 2015 @09:37PM (#9782036)

If you know algorithms well, create a visual simulator for algorithms. Take a user input and then display the results from each step of algorithm visually to people who want to learn algorithm. Most algorithm books show the steps with boxes etc, build them dynamically and displays the changes user input goes through during each step.

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Re:Ask HN: Suggestions for fun side projects by seaneking on Saturday June 27, 2015 @12:00AM (#9789048)

This would be awesome. One of my favourite articles of recent is http://bost.ocks.org/mike/algorithms/ which covers this kind of thing.

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Re:Ask HN: Suggestions for fun side projects by a3n on Thursday June 25, 2015 @08:25PM (#9781792)

Make a prototype of Young Lady's Illustrated Primer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Diamond_Age#Plot_summary

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Re:Ask HN: Suggestions for fun side projects by farewell on Thursday June 25, 2015 @09:21PM (#9781986)

If you already have webcam floating around you can tackle with OpenCV to do your own gesture handler.

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