#practicecoding-people, if you have suggestions for the project, please suggest away!
Current ideas are: a Mastodon bot, a mosaic generator and a polling feature for Mastodon. I'll add some of my weirder suggestions as a reply here. :)
#practicecoding project ideas:
- an add-in that memeifies a toot
- Mastodon poem-maker (inspired by poetweet.com.br)
- a calculator that tries to find out when your TL on Mastodon wakes up / goes to sleep
@TQ I have seen this used to great effect on irc for other projects
LT Darn, it ate the tag? #practicecoding idea
I like the commit bot idea.
Will it post its own commit messages?
"What is this thing @TQ just attached to my head? It says: 'added new haircut'"
@TQ Soooo... do you really want to go into Mastodon code / API?
Because if you want to build a polling tool for mastodon? Everyone who might be just starting to learn basic programming will be lost?
@TQ timezone calculator is a good one, being able to handle time/date in coding can be challenge (b/c locales, formats) and therefore a very useful skill to learn..
I'd like to vote for a simple but fun approach that yields some kind of tangible result, hence my suggestions for #practicecoding. But I still like the bot idea a lot!
@TQ No worries ^_^
@TQ our bot will be a nice bot. Not a annoying bot. :3
@TQ There's nothing to stop us going for a quick and simple thing, then doing the bot once we've all got a feel for the basics of coding and collaboration.
We could make some sort of simple game or maybe game-bots that play against each other? #practicecoding
Maybe learn python and use something like pygame (http://pygame.org/) to create a simple game?
We could work alone, in small or bigger teams, depending on what people prefer. Not everyone wants so / is able to learn in groups of strangers ^^
. @Jules Great! I had a similar idea. Python seems to be one of the languages of choice for #practicecoding (along with go and Ruby), and I really enjoyed the codecademy lessons!
@Jules this is great. Even tinypy can do pygame
@TQ Oh wow that poetry website is amazing. It created a Rondel (I really like that word... like, roll the R... Rrrrondel) anyways it's amazing and it titled mine... "A hangover" and pretty much sums up my life, or at least the feeling. So...
Thank you for this.
#sharingiscaring
#poetry
@TQ Once the project gets going, a commit bot is fun: it posts e.g. the commit message whenever anyone commits code to the repo.