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Vincent Taijeron wrote:
> 
> I was wondering what would be a good "newbie" project.  What was one of
> your first projects?  Looking for ideas.

It depends. When I was learning C, I started with learning the syntax from 
the AT&T C Programmer's Reference (those were the days...). Then I decided 
that a good project to start programming using C was to implement something 
I'd find useful, so I wrote an application to keep track of my records 
(y'know, music) and tapes. Ever since, when I'm learning a new language or 
a new database system, this is my favorite project, because of the many 
subtleties. For example, you should be able to keep track of records that 
are by one band and of records that have various artists (the tracks 
included, of course), and in addition, you'd like to know who played on that 
one record. So, if there's an outsider starring on a track, that should be 
tracked also. This gives you better understanding of how to create relations 
in the database, when you do that a number of times. And always, there is 
room for improvement: what about an orchestra conducted by some famous 
conductor playing Beethoven's Ninth? Or a shorter classic with some other by 
Mozart on side B of the record?

But anyway, the first projects you do, try to figure out some program you'd 
find use for. This way, you'll end up with coding it and knowing what you're 
doing, and also with something useful, not just coding for coding's sake.

Later,
 AriL
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