Re: small project to learn clojure
Confession:The best way I have found to learn a language is to pick a girl and make something that impresses her. When I was learning to use Node.js, I made a chat room for my girlfriend and I to talk in when we doing a long distance relationship. It had a sassy robot that pulled pictures of lolcats from reddit on command. Another weekend, I made a robot that would sext pickup lines if a girl messaged the right number. The simpler a project sounds, a flirty robot that I can sext!, the more complicated the implementation will be. Although it was easy to do in node, I imagine that making a sexting robot service with clojure would make you learn a great deal about state if you tried to go from simple pick up lines to a robot that could conduct multiple conversations at once with several different people/numbers. It's what has worked for me and will probably be the technique I use for the foreseeable future. The idea is limited to topics that can be wrapped up into packages to impress women, but that is really just a exercise in imagination and creativity. Make friends with a math major and a whole field of abstract topics crop up that are fair game. Good luck! -Zack a.k.a American College Male P.S. I am extremely sorry if females feel left out by this advice. This is what has worked for me as a guy wishing to learn programming. I wish I had advice for you that would be more useful if you were trying to learn a language. If you generalized to make something you would want to show your friends, then it is probably still pretty applicable. On Sep 17, 3:23 am, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On 09/16/2011 11:50 PM, Dennis Haupt wrote: i feel compelled to do something more complex in clojure. not too big, but bigger than what fits in 100 lines and offers some chances to use macros. it should also be fun, maybe something like robocode. Something that is not primitive but may stay small or at least has clearly defined boundaries right from start ... if you rule out pure logic puzzles, this does point to games, I think. There are so many simple games, some of which must have been implemented a million times. You could try to do one of those, but with a twist, perhaps. Like a Pacman, but where you steer the ghosts (only one at a time, changing the direction it heads to). Dungeonmaster-Sokoban, where you have to push boxes to create a path that will lead to the hero's death, once he arrives. That without trapping your own worker. OR, you look for an existing project, where you could implement a missing feature. Ideally one where you could interact with the author/contributors via IRC.http://www.webnoir.org/might be a candidate, where a comment system or tagging come to mind (I'm not affiliated and don't know if something like that is underway, already). -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software:http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
Re: small project to learn clojure
If Robocode is fun to you, why not do that then: http://nakkaya.com/2010/07/06/controlling-robocode-engine-from-clojure/ http://www.fatvat.co.uk/2009/05/clojure-and-robocode.html There's also been a thread on this group about the same topic a while ago. Hope this helps Andreas On 19 September 2011 10:39, Zack Maril thewitzb...@gmail.com wrote: Confession:The best way I have found to learn a language is to pick a girl and make something that impresses her. When I was learning to use Node.js, I made a chat room for my girlfriend and I to talk in when we doing a long distance relationship. It had a sassy robot that pulled pictures of lolcats from reddit on command. Another weekend, I made a robot that would sext pickup lines if a girl messaged the right number. The simpler a project sounds, a flirty robot that I can sext!, the more complicated the implementation will be. Although it was easy to do in node, I imagine that making a sexting robot service with clojure would make you learn a great deal about state if you tried to go from simple pick up lines to a robot that could conduct multiple conversations at once with several different people/numbers. It's what has worked for me and will probably be the technique I use for the foreseeable future. The idea is limited to topics that can be wrapped up into packages to impress women, but that is really just a exercise in imagination and creativity. Make friends with a math major and a whole field of abstract topics crop up that are fair game. Good luck! -Zack a.k.a American College Male P.S. I am extremely sorry if females feel left out by this advice. This is what has worked for me as a guy wishing to learn programming. I wish I had advice for you that would be more useful if you were trying to learn a language. If you generalized to make something you would want to show your friends, then it is probably still pretty applicable. On Sep 17, 3:23 am, Thorsten Wilms t...@freenet.de wrote: On 09/16/2011 11:50 PM, Dennis Haupt wrote: i feel compelled to do something more complex in clojure. not too big, but bigger than what fits in 100 lines and offers some chances to use macros. it should also be fun, maybe something like robocode. Something that is not primitive but may stay small or at least has clearly defined boundaries right from start ... if you rule out pure logic puzzles, this does point to games, I think. There are so many simple games, some of which must have been implemented a million times. You could try to do one of those, but with a twist, perhaps. Like a Pacman, but where you steer the ghosts (only one at a time, changing the direction it heads to). Dungeonmaster-Sokoban, where you have to push boxes to create a path that will lead to the hero's death, once he arrives. That without trapping your own worker. OR, you look for an existing project, where you could implement a missing feature. Ideally one where you could interact with the author/contributors via IRC.http://www.webnoir.org/might be a candidate, where a comment system or tagging come to mind (I'm not affiliated and don't know if something like that is underway, already). -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software:http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -- ** Andreas Koestler, Software Engineer Leica Geosystems Pty Ltd 270 Gladstone Road, Dutton Park QLD 4102 Main: +61 7 3891 9772 Direct: +61 7 3117 8808 Fax: +61 7 3891 9336 Email: andreas.koest...@leica-geosystems.com www.leica-geosystems.com* when it has to be right, Leica Geosystems Please consider the environment before printing this email. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
Re: small project to learn clojure
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i DID care about my robot :) Am 17.09.2011 04:57, schrieb Alan Malloy: Notice something you do often, and try to automate it. Or find an open- source project you use, and you wish were better in some way, and improve it. Learning a language by means of I need to learn something, what should I do is not as effective, or as fun, as learning it by doing something you care about. On Sep 16, 2:50 pm, Dennis Haupt d.haup...@googlemail.com wrote: hi community, i feel compelled to do something more complex in clojure. not too big, but bigger than what fits in 100 lines and offers some chances to use macros. it should also be fun, maybe something like robocode. - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOdEvzAAoJENRtux+h35aGN8MQAI3lnLB31L1C2brCh4jgWWdo AOW+nhiF5X47ab3WPnaIrcVOkE89OBQE4/7hXlSqeJD8W6zh4uCIhkFzIKk/p9xN ISgUBues9qxh8SIhpujCgnhyp44ms8ifHzHlZIiBuR2O2+LBeYKyZIepyZCdjpcf zZ/4er3lpKB5DTwQ3X+TRAHK4zHC3eEhtSwaLki9AShw2f5abFT5H8Mo/ptSogOt lkYZHEWNHr2xShBtvJZtXfXTecRisT3Ra3ukkeAldgfRst1LXmy2G44HN1B3Cn+K 9yQJoja4aySqtEKilzADkG2+8AyNK5y2UoGjehca9omGha30KkreyNiyLws/njNn I6YGBLgzIAgcu+gXTPXqV8j0gE1YBrgTcQvzMTKlOKnA/DG0mJwJTLdfE5q6FNP5 92lAntea0fNBb5RMFpcNa4/c8lGvwgiNAJtAYeX2G1v6MFMavd1nbN/HR3fS3rLQ wpR6ssPSqjQxQZ5a0MzM/vXJX2qn8/rNqo7RkgLRMv0abOPMCA2FEtxxxsrHetkz lY/O/B+F6ByKxp5W9xdHE9f2QxfSYf9lXr0eEuHWOeJK10Jj2tYR4WmxB/s/cFNI KUGTrAeh666TTyzAq93OHLHh7y7lLXY4SwUMyOHO8t1UK0aDMlnZqRWtAHPuN3+r UF3ujhgj3WbGOeEzPEBg =ekWR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
Re: small project to learn clojure
On 09/16/2011 11:50 PM, Dennis Haupt wrote: i feel compelled to do something more complex in clojure. not too big, but bigger than what fits in 100 lines and offers some chances to use macros. it should also be fun, maybe something like robocode. Something that is not primitive but may stay small or at least has clearly defined boundaries right from start ... if you rule out pure logic puzzles, this does point to games, I think. There are so many simple games, some of which must have been implemented a million times. You could try to do one of those, but with a twist, perhaps. Like a Pacman, but where you steer the ghosts (only one at a time, changing the direction it heads to). Dungeonmaster-Sokoban, where you have to push boxes to create a path that will lead to the hero's death, once he arrives. That without trapping your own worker. OR, you look for an existing project, where you could implement a missing feature. Ideally one where you could interact with the author/contributors via IRC. http://www.webnoir.org/ might be a candidate, where a comment system or tagging come to mind (I'm not affiliated and don't know if something like that is underway, already). -- Thorsten Wilms thorwil's design for free software: http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
small project to learn clojure
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi community, i feel compelled to do something more complex in clojure. not too big, but bigger than what fits in 100 lines and offers some chances to use macros. it should also be fun, maybe something like robocode. - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOc8SiAAoJENRtux+h35aGh1cP/jpv1MaEES/5uTPdbDH3Sx45 hVMMC7zw6q2X1b2yEpfxSJzuDoThS7ptI2vQL2izbr9C0fwuBxuXgIXgSgLAl14S mVwnpfn5BIcuNf0QS1QfpJhCLQDJnh+EF13DKnqrNJnP9ACLJ89p8a0CB9SURFCE SgpWoTrAgNKiF1N+P9uP54N7WhwlQ20qkmn+XZDKLJWa4PFlQEpHM32rwYsYpEv8 1eM+X1xR0Z6LEKjbZGyWOShgvN2j4YdosQUWL7FQku2Z7150g13upt6nLNvF9tC6 IO+xlnJ4T68Joq8o3jOBhw+hMszQ0Ax54UfW2Q1QJjiB/E5Ex7NPhCCPdDKcQSPU YWEPHhf/ft9mXWxlEXRhLw1C0R4FwZ6OtNdMLx7X7jk/e/DCjFIxyXinyObm6BVZ sCaX4EzwA16rBeAc3D3LxMigvfm0zxEx1sp1skSyL2HQ7rNb++nR7hJjmd96yT20 MxxbIc0eTj4IZEKz+8W5U+FV7rYa11SREiDq0BBmxi1i3tJarNAAJ9I48OhOFn3y QSAT4/oblh8xa4+FgFLVnWz9rXNJMhBcgVcA1fxJLvysxG4C3MMOhVBRtR4kBt4x OcBDNn+yny4FYknxDQMo9l5VJyBuD6AlHIaKK/eBkikaX06Fwkg6/MgzwMtkJ7yR NT21x0zDCYiXdTa3SNv8 =Gqz8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
Re: small project to learn clojure
Notice something you do often, and try to automate it. Or find an open- source project you use, and you wish were better in some way, and improve it. Learning a language by means of I need to learn something, what should I do is not as effective, or as fun, as learning it by doing something you care about. On Sep 16, 2:50 pm, Dennis Haupt d.haup...@googlemail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi community, i feel compelled to do something more complex in clojure. not too big, but bigger than what fits in 100 lines and offers some chances to use macros. it should also be fun, maybe something like robocode. - -- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.14 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJOc8SiAAoJENRtux+h35aGh1cP/jpv1MaEES/5uTPdbDH3Sx45 hVMMC7zw6q2X1b2yEpfxSJzuDoThS7ptI2vQL2izbr9C0fwuBxuXgIXgSgLAl14S mVwnpfn5BIcuNf0QS1QfpJhCLQDJnh+EF13DKnqrNJnP9ACLJ89p8a0CB9SURFCE SgpWoTrAgNKiF1N+P9uP54N7WhwlQ20qkmn+XZDKLJWa4PFlQEpHM32rwYsYpEv8 1eM+X1xR0Z6LEKjbZGyWOShgvN2j4YdosQUWL7FQku2Z7150g13upt6nLNvF9tC6 IO+xlnJ4T68Joq8o3jOBhw+hMszQ0Ax54UfW2Q1QJjiB/E5Ex7NPhCCPdDKcQSPU YWEPHhf/ft9mXWxlEXRhLw1C0R4FwZ6OtNdMLx7X7jk/e/DCjFIxyXinyObm6BVZ sCaX4EzwA16rBeAc3D3LxMigvfm0zxEx1sp1skSyL2HQ7rNb++nR7hJjmd96yT20 MxxbIc0eTj4IZEKz+8W5U+FV7rYa11SREiDq0BBmxi1i3tJarNAAJ9I48OhOFn3y QSAT4/oblh8xa4+FgFLVnWz9rXNJMhBcgVcA1fxJLvysxG4C3MMOhVBRtR4kBt4x OcBDNn+yny4FYknxDQMo9l5VJyBuD6AlHIaKK/eBkikaX06Fwkg6/MgzwMtkJ7yR NT21x0zDCYiXdTa3SNv8 =Gqz8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Clojure group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
