I second that - scratching an itch is a great way to learn stuff *and* stay motivated. And honestly a lot of employers (especially the more technically inclined ones) are going to be at least as impressed by "I wrote a Ruby program that's unbeatable at checkers, here's the code" as anything else you might say.
Scratching an itch could also take the form of contributing back to some open source projects that you use. Maybe you want Rubocop to catch a new class of errors, or you want SciRuby to offer some new types of complicated math. If you're still coming up short on itches, another avenue you could explore is competition-type sites. These will give you challenges to complete that can sharpen your skills and give you regular feedback in the form of completing levels, or beating other people, or whatnot. Three off the top of my head: [1]Project Euler (solving math problems), [2]Ruby Warrior (code-driven RPG), and [3]RTanque (arena battle tanks). On Fri, Jun 13, 2014, at 03:34 PM, Guyren Howe wrote: On Jun 13, 2014, at 8:25 , Bela Mhasavade <[4][email protected]> wrote: I am a graduate student at SDSU and am planning to invest this summer in some Ruby Project(s). I will be grateful if anyone here could suggest me some interesting topics. I am interested in doing only Ruby project and not RoR even though I have experience in RoR. I have googled many topics but I did not find anything such that I can work on for the whole summer. There are ideas for small projects and I am looking for some substantial project. Find a problem or an interest that you have, that could be computerized. If only I had time for all of my ideas… A friend of mine made a scoring app for Snooker. He is talking about making a web app that lets you track your wine collection. There is a fun party game called The Resistance (there are other games that are similar, such as Werewolf). I would love to see someone do a website where a bunch of people can rock up with their phones or tablets or whatever, and play “party” games such as The Resistance without having to bother carrying cards around or shuffling or whatever. Everyone would just go to the site, join the same game, and they’re off. If you don’t have any itches that need scratching, you have to have a friend or family member with a problem akin to organizing their wine collection. -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] [5]http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [6][email protected]. For more options, visit [7]https://groups.google.com/d/optout. References 1. https://projecteuler.net/ 2. https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior 3. https://awilliams.github.io/RTanque/ 4. mailto:[email protected] 5. http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby 6. mailto:[email protected] 7. https://groups.google.com/d/optout -- -- SD Ruby mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/sdruby --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SD Ruby" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
