On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Carin Meier <gigasq...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I have fallen for Clojure. I would love to be able to practice and > hone my skills while contributing something to an open source > project. Do you have any suggestions for projects that might have > some low-hanging fruit for a newish person like me. Any floors that > need sweeping?
When I started with Clojure, I mostly focused on solving problems in Clojure that cropped up in my day job (not using Clojure) so I was essentially "double developing" a lot of things. That kept working in a domain I knew, knowing how to solve those problems in language X and then figuring out how to solve them elegantly in Clojure. Some times I'd ask on the #clojure IRC channel on freenode for input - folks are extremely helpful and the feedback was very valuable (and continues to be!). I think the advice to find - or create - a project that interests you and solves a problem you have is good advice. You need to know the domain so that you're not trying to learn two languages at once (the idioms of the domain language and the idioms of the programming language). So, questions to Carin, Alex and Alan (and Ulises): What interests you? What problems do you have that you'd like solutions for? Knowing that, folks might be able to point you at existing projects to take part in (or might confirm no such project exists and they'd be interested in collaborating with you)... -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- 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
