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@OOP project:
One of the main issues that new programmers tend to get wrong is the usability of a program from the point of view of someone else. In my experience a program can often be confounding to others - even fellow programmers - who don't know what's in the head of the creator of an application. For that reason alone, you really should try to think of a little program that you would like to have yourself: look at it from the users perspective, not from the programmers perspective! The best programs and tools often come from people who initially created it for themselves. Just make sure it's not too complex or daunting.
Some ideas include word processing tools, e. g. an editor that can read forum posts and put the postings of a thread like this into readable form for offline consumption. Or a small vector-based drawing program (there are lots of painting programs, but very few good ones that are vector-based, i. e. use scalable graphic elements). Or maybe a remake of a favorite game that you want to add some features to, or otherwise adapt to your favourite playstyle. Maybe you like music and would like a tool to read, convert, merge and otherwise modify music and sounds from different sources.
You should also consider the platform your program should work on: a desktop or smartphone application are two entirely different things, and so is a web service. At the moment smartphone (and other mobile device) apps are hip, but there's also a huge number of programmers already busy creating stuff, so it's going to be difficult to create an app that stands out from the rest.
Once you know what you want to do, consider the things a user may want to do with it, and how he would want to interact with it. This defines the expected behaviour of your system, and behaviour is one of the most important aspects of OOP! From there it should be easier to identify the objects in your system, and what they can do.
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The answer is CP!
The rest is you are going to have to take risks, make some choices, makes mistakes, learn from your mistakes, pick yourself up and keep going like the rest of us still do - even after 20+ years of professional programming.
There is no goose that lays golden eggs in the world of programming advice 
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Vmortis wrote: ---> It would be like a thinking tank/brainstorming place for people with experience to give a kick start for those who are new to some level of IT (Programming, Web Design, Networking, Hardware related and so on...)
That's kinda what CP already is.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Vmortis wrote: instead of people posting a job offer they would say "If you do <some
project>, we can discuss a position in my company/office" or "At this moment
<some project> may have great potential".
This is essentially a bounty system, with a job interview or job offer as the bounty. There's other ways to get something similar, internships, part time jobs, open source projects, even for-cash software bounty systems.
Your idea has an interesting twist to it, so it sounds to me like you have your project -- rather than rely on others to create this for you to use, you should create it yourself. After all, this is the entire point of learning a creative skill like programming -- it allows you to have what you think is a good idea, and then create it yourself instead of waiting or paying others to do it for you. Many famous internet companies were started this exact way.
Just be sure to do your market and demographic research before you start designing the system so you know what it needs to do. You've already got one potential user (yourself, as student and bounty satisfier), so you need at least one other that's seriously on the other side (a bounty offerer). Maybe you can find one around the university, if they get useable software from the effort for free, you might convince them its worth the trade of their time to coach students into producing what they need.
We can program with only 1's, but if all you've got are zeros, you've got nothing.
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Ok, here's an idea that might be good for you. Produce a web page that aggregates other web pages. It would be like a mini-dashboard that could have a box for sticky forum items that an administrator would mark as "useful enough to be stuck". Or you could let users vote on which forums should be "stuck up" ("stickyed up"?) and the highest voted ones would appear in the "Most Useful" box. Have another box with latest job postings, a short list, filtered by something like "Java" or "C#" or something and only the N latest postings. Another box, perhaps larger, with the best marked or voted "How To" articles.
While this might seem to be a lot of work it doesn't have to be for your assignment. Use an existing forum, an existing job listing, an existing set of how to articles. Figure out a way to select which ones show in your boxes. Include hyperlinks to them of course. So you just have to put together a single dashboard-like web page. Add a couple of controls to change the layout at least slightly and you will have something with some user interaction and some utility.
You could make this a "personalizable" dashboard to Code Project forums, articles, and job postings. The main Code Project landing page already does this to an extent but it's not customizable (that I know of) and for a class project it would have utility. And people on Code Project might find it useful so you could post it to Code Project for review and feedback. You could implement it in any number of languages but I would suggest that C# in ASP.NET might be fairly easy to get started with and be more relevant for Code Project people here.
Good luck,
- Grant
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Vmortis wrote: at the last semester of the curse
You're lucky, I hear women have the curse monthly. 
As you get into interviewing, you'll get plenty of chances of doing challenge coding.
Here's an old stand-by
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes[^] Of course you won't get near the millions of digits the really serious about it have gotten to. (I can't even think of how you could get a performant routine to accurately get those millions of digits.)
Talk to your teachers, see if they can get an aide to search the web for problem challenges. Our aide came up with a challenge. She found it on the web but wouldn't reveal the source. A fellow student figured our current computers could find an answer in 6 months. On my computer I get an answer in hundredths of a second to 10 minutes. (Multiply by four for the computers we were using then.) The following is solved in 2 minutes:
x x x x x x x
x 29 x 31 x 32 x
x x x x x x x
x 33 x 37 x 29 x
x x x x x x x
x 37 x 30 x 27 x
x x x x x x x The app finds 17,101 different solutions in those 2 minutes. Basically replace the above "x"s with the numbers 1 through 7. They can't repeat in the same row or column and the 8 "x"s surrounding the numbers have to add up to that number.
In those 2 minutes I am collecting statistics on the process I decided to use to solve the problem.
What kind of process would you use to solve the problem? (Take care, that 6 month estimate is a drop in the bucket compared to having 40 inner loops from 1 to 7. 2 billion loops a second is several times faster than my 2GH device can do and 0 flop to check the solution works out to a quintillion years.)
How would you design the UI?
What capabilities will the UI provide?
Why?
Are there any rules you'll enforce for the UI?
I prefer C#, so you might be able to find a solution that would shame the speed of mine.
Do take the time to consider exactly how you would go about solving the problem with performance being a consideration.
Could you design a web version of it? I came up with one but checked it out just enough to verify I don't want to put up the resources needed to solve it and I didn't even try to see how performant it could be. (Just enough to come up with "not much" as an answer.)
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"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.
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You want to run around smelling like a (fried) pig?
Sent from my BatComputer via HAL 9000 and M5
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That, I think could be the start of the Zombie Apocalypse 
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glennPattonWork wrote: ... could be the start of the Zombie Apocalypse
I'm doubting it, might even block the smell of their food source, extending the survival period of humans. The price of survival, might be a bit high.
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As much as I love bacon, I don't think people should be walking around smelling like food.
Throughout my entire college years, there was this French guy who smelled like baloney. Every. Single. Day.
Not that I'm singling out this guy...but he did nothing to help the smelly Frenchman stereotype.
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So, b/c I work for a US company, it's an Aussie company they own that pays me.
me : so, I've given notice, does the company know ? They didn't answer my email
boss : yes, they know, you'll get your last pay on your last day
me : OK
Did I get paid ? No. Did they know ? No. Had I kept quiet, I bet they would have kept paying me until the zombie apocalypse.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote: Did I get paid ? No. Did they know ? No. Had I kept quiet, I bet they would have kept paying me until the zombie apocalypse.
The way things are going that may not be to long in coming!
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It sure feels like it, I can tell you...
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Christian Graus wrote: zombie apocalypse.
The new era of programmers
www.dirkstechblog.blogspot.com
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so if they didnt pay you why are you finishing work off?
bryce
MCAD
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Why wouldn't I ? I don't doubt they'll pay me, they are just disorganised, not evil.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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ahh i see
sorry i guess i read your post as a "they've stopped paying me on purpose" type email.
I'm sure you're going to have a yarn with the manager person.
bryce
MCAD
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Sorry, no. They just told me they were organised and they were not.
Christian Graus
Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista.
Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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never thought this happens with a company. are there any instances where a company continued paying a person despite them leaving the organization? (i hear such stories in govt agencies).
Regards,
Anantha Sharma
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Hmm... My mom received paychecks from the company my dad used to work for, up until about 6 months after he had died...
Makes you wonder: was he that good at work, or did he just go unnoticed?
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AnanthaSharma wrote: (i hear such stories in govt agencies).
Whahaha 
As if inefficiency would be the sole area of government; only in the distorted world of economics government is inefficient and companies always the top of efficiency.
As soon as people are badly supervised and/or anonymous in your organization, they'll start to slack. They do not check whether they are paid by the government or a corporation before starting the slacking.
Less propaganda, more actual thinking, learning and education, please.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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