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How do you find projects to work on when learning a new language? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 6 months ago by hector@sh.itjust.works to c/programming@programming.dev
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I have been learning C++/Elixir recently and I’ve made a distributed port scanner & and a streaming platform with Elixir (what an amazing language to work with) and some fun in C++ (also super cool to use).

I feel like I gained basic mastery of the languages, but I’ve been meaning to deepen my knowledge of them. However, I don’t know where to start now…

Can you give me ideas, open-source project that I could help, etc… ? Thanks!

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[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

A few ideas:

Try to create a service that lets you send a message over ActivityPub to a lemmy community.

Try to use Elixir to read and then flip the 3rd bit of an arbitrary byte stored in your system's RAM.

Try to make a simple game in c++ compiled to Webassembly to be played in a browser.

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow thanks that’s a good idea

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I don't know which idea was good, but that's why I shotgunned 3 of them at you.

Have fun!

[–] hector@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

(ActivityPub)