[Tutor] Programming Ideas, need some focus

[Michael Langford]

No, but this is quite useful for getting it up and going on your PC:
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images_for_emulation

I was looking at Metropolis (the non-TM version of SimCity) as its gui
is all written in python....

          --Michael



On 1/16/08, Eric Abrahamsen <eric at abrahamsen.com> wrote:
> Hey, on this topic, I spent some time this afternoon googling the One
> Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project (the GUI is done with Python and
> PyGTK), to see if there were any collaborative open-source projects I
> could contribute to. Seems like a perfect opportunity to get a little
> more Python experience and actually do something useful. I found lots
> of noble exhortations to help, but very little in the way of
> specifics. Does anyone know of any ongoing projects that could use
> volunteers? Of the middling-capable range?
>
> Eric
>
> On Jan 16, 2008, at 9:29 PM, Michael Langford wrote:
>
> > There are programming contests you can enter. I don't know of any more
> > still running past these two (but would love to hear of more):
> >
> > Sphere Online Judge:
> > http://www.spoj.pl/problems/classical/
> >
> > Topcoder's Development Contests:
> > http://www.topcoder.com/tc?module=ViewActiveContests&ph=113
> >
> >       --Michael
> >
> >
> > On 1/16/08, Fiyawerx <fiyawerx at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> I've been over google for hours now, and I'm sort of at a lull in my
> >> learning, as I don't really have a current "goal". I know I could
> >> set some
> >> easy goal like to learn a specific function or feature, but I still
> >> have a
> >> hard time with that approach also. I was wondering if anyone knows
> >> of any
> >> sites where people might request "projects" almost like rentacoder,
> >> but for
> >> free stuff and/or just for fun. Almost an 'It would be nice if I
> >> had a
> >> program that did this.. " type of thing to give me some direction.
> >> Or does
> >> anyone else have any ideas for some types of programs that might
> >> actually
> >> prove useful to people for beginners to work on?
> >>
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