OCUK programming project?

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Hello All,

Just wondered if anyone is up for working on a project on here? Would be a bit of fun and help us all sharpen up our skills? Perhaps as a mini "intro" to programming for the younger members?

Perhaps people could post up suggestions and we could have a think about which one to run with?

Would be cool if it was forum related (E.g. we could write something that generates usage statistics for the different sub-boards?)

Just a suggestion.

Cheers

D A N G E R S T A T
 
I think things like this have been discussed before and never really got off the ground, if there are enough people willing to commit the time and effort it could work though.

You really need one person to co-ordinate everything and be able to dedicate a significant amount of time to it, otherwise it will descend into chaos.
If you think you can (or know someone who can) do this then I'd be up for helping out with some things, could be a good opportunity to learn some new languages as well.

You've got to also bare in mind that most of the developers who would be able to run with something non-trivial are also the ones who spend 8+ hours a day coding for their jobs and may not be able to dedicate too much time to things.

Sorry if it sounds like I'm being negative with all this, but I've been involved with things like this before and seen them flop, so just want to make sure you know it's not something you can organise with an hour here and there.
 
I'd be interested in taking part, but as Haircut says, it will need a fair bit of co-ordinating.

I mainly only know the .NET languages myself
 
I'd definitely be up for this.

Mainly a Java programmer, but willing to try my hand at anything.

Like geuben tho, I'm not available till after 10th june due to exams :<
 
Thanks for the responses guys. I think it'd be a good idea to start off with something pretty trivial and high level to see how it goes - and with a language (perhaps Perl?) which anyone can pick up in no time - and see how it goes.

I'd be happy to act as a co-coordinator with someone else?

My areas are C/C++ & Java & Perl primarily - but working knowledge of all sorts of other bits and bobs.
 
I nominate a game. :D


Air, land and sea combat. Like Battlefield / Operation Flashpoint but with every unit modelled to study sim level. Infantry, helicopters, jets, subs e.t.c.
 
eXor said:
I nominate a game. :D


Air, land and sea combat. Like Battlefield / Operation Flashpoint but with every unit modelled to study sim level. Infantry, helicopters, jets, subs e.t.c.
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A game would be good, but they take a lot of work. I have a few half finished games, all written in DIV/Fenix

My main language is C (particularly microcontroller programming) and I've recently done some C++ (I made some multi-touch applications).
 
eXor said:
I nominate a game. :D


Air, land and sea combat. Like Battlefield / Operation Flashpoint but with every unit modelled to study sim level. Infantry, helicopters, jets, subs e.t.c.
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A game would be pretty harsh, lots of the guys / gals on here are still at college so it'd be nice to keep it accessible IMO.

The reason I suggested something OCUK forum related is that we know we all have that in common.
 
I imagine usage statistics would already be available from within VB (if not hidden away for the admins only).

Depending on what project people want to make I might be able to lend a hand. My experience is mainly in PHP, C# and SQL (mainly MSSQL nowadays, but MySQL as well).

I think a game might be quite hard going. I've been trying to get my head around XNA recently and it's not an easy task (despite the framework being very good).
 
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Pho said:
I imagine usage statistics would already be available from within VB (if not hidden away for the admins only).

Depending on what project people want to make I might be able to lend a hand. My experience is mainly in PHP, C# and SQL (mainly MSSQL nowadays, but MySQL as well).

I think a game might be quite hard going. I've been trying to get my head around XNA recently and it's not an easy task (despite the framework being very good).
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I think they aren't included on vB but if they are then we can still do other cool stuff with the forums I think. A bit of PhP skill would be very useful, not bad at it here but no where near able to say I have significant experience with it:)
 
Welshy said:
I'd be interested in taking part, but as Haircut says, it will need a fair bit of co-ordinating.

I mainly only know the .NET languages myself
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So that's only*

C++
C#
VB.Net
J#
COBOL
lolcode
Pascal
APL
Oz
Perl
Python
Scheme
Small Talk
Eiffel
Forth
Fortran
Haskell

Wow, pretty limited then!

;)

*I'm sure I've missed out a load...
 
Chaos said:
What about a programming workshop, the idea is you make poll and people vote on a language they want to learn, then recommend a book and everyone works thought it, 1 or 2 chapters a week and if they get stuck they can ask for help for a particular chapter and the wise owls make up exercises to.

Heres a c++ that was done - http://www.gamedev.net/community/forums/forum.asp?forum_id=76

Just an idea..
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Nice idea Choas, I think the problem is (as happens in this thread a bit) that people dont know where to start, they get scared when you mention c++. But I think thats a top idea. I think I'd like to start with knowing what people want to do, that's how I started. Once you know what it is you want, it makes everything else seem easy :)
 
I'd be willing to contribute, I know a little Java, but would love to learn more, or expand into other languages :)

I'll keep an eye on the topic, and wrack my brain for a few ideas too.

(I'm 16, youngest member on team? =D )
 
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