minakshi deore wrote: > hi i want to do the projects in c, so if u know abt c projects thn reply me > immidiately > plz tel me the project names and information about tht
While it is admirable that you are wanting something to do and want to spend your time learning C/C++, c-prog is not here to give you ideas on what to do. The choice of what project to work on next is entirely up to you and is completely based on your personal preference, skill set, and interests. The 'Links' section on the c-prog website has an entire category called 'Projects': http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/links/Projects_001115340703/ The links contained there are useful if you want to learn new skills by testing yourself or want to take on a project as a freelancer and get paid for work completed or perhaps you are interested in open source or...well, the list goes on and on. And perhaps you fancy developing your own software products. One of the most critical skills you can develop as a programmer is choosing for yourself what projects to work on next and how to go about developing those projects. Figure out what it is that interests you most and then pursue the goal you set for yourself. One thing I do that aids me greatly is keeping a list of things I want to do project-wise. Whenever I come up with an idea for a software product, I write it down in that list right away and try to flesh it out somewhat so that when I return to it later I can remember why I wrote it down. I also keep track of what I want to do for version releases of my current software products. Basically, this is a "living list" that grows and shrinks over time (but it mostly just grows). However! When I add an item to my list, I try to make sure the idea is unique in some fashion. There are so many software products out there that already exist that it is fairly pointless to duplicate someone else's effort unless there is a very good reason to do so beyond the "making yet another clone of XYZ" reason where the overall software is inferior to the product being duplicated. Just before I go on the warpath to developing a new product, I do my homework. I run hundreds of Google queries and visit the most popular software distribution sites in an attempt to find an existing product that does what I want to do. If it exists, even in a limited fashion, I weigh the effort involved in developing a competitive product versus developing other items in my list that are truly unique. I've got about 50 products and product ideas at any given time on my list. And, no, you can't have any of them. [off-topic] I've started making "living lists" for other things as well. For example, Christmas lists have traditionally been a nuisance. I used to get asked for the list and trying to remember on the spot what sort of things I wanted always ended up in getting stuff I didn't really want. Now I keep a detailed list as I go along and then siphon off a small number of items with a wide variety of price ranges every year. I've tried various tools that do list management (including the paper and pencil variety) and, amazingly, a plain ol' text document in Notepad works far better than any other mechanism. [/off-topic] Examples of the outcome of ideas from my living lists are the very products on my website. VerifyMyPC was born from an idea on that list but the first attempt was a complete failure and even the latest version still isn't quite what I want it to be but it still works like a charm for my needs. I've already caught Microsoft with its pants down using VerifyMyPC. VerifyMyPC has even been labeled as the "poor man's tripwire" - that is, I accidentally made a lightweight Intrustion Detection System - not what it was intended for but some users have found it to be an invaluable tool as an IDS system. Also, keep in mind, that because the market is saturated with software products, you probably shouldn't release your version of Tetris just because you wrote it. I have thousands of software programs I've written but never released. If you put your program on the Internet, you better be ready and capable of supporting that program. I have too many products as-is. -- Thomas Hruska CubicleSoft President Ph: 517-803-4197 *NEW* MyTaskFocus 1.1 Get on task. Stay on task. http://www.CubicleSoft.com/MyTaskFocus/
