Deciding on my next project
I haven’t really been keeping this blog updated, which is a shame, but then again.. I wanted it to be tutorials and tips and such, and that hasn’t really worked out so well, because I never really know where to begin when writing a tutorial..
But perhaps a developer’s diary will be better anyway? I think it might be, and that’s what I’m going to try and do, as soon as I decide on a project, that is. It’s not that I’m lacking the inspiration for projects, because I actually have quite a few projects I’m thinking about these days.
My first idea is a game, actually.. One that exists in quite a lot of editions already, and creating it would mainly be for my own benefit anyway, unless someone actually found it useful.. Anyway, it’s Sudoku. It’s a simple game really, and shouldn’t take too long to program, once I get the interface created. The pros for this project are, other than the obvious satisfaction of writing a game, that I enjoy Sudoku, and I can make it the way I enjoy playing it.. But there are some cons as well, the biggest being that it’s not exactly a constructive piece of software.. It cannot be used for anything practical.
The next idea is a currency converter, like the one I’ve already made, only better and faster, and with support for more units, as I would write both a J2ME version, as well as a version for the Eve VM. This is a piece of software that I know I will eventually write, but is it something I want to focus on now? I’m not entirely sure it is..
There’s also an expense tracker that I’ve been thinking about creating. That would primarily be for Eve VM, but I might also consider making a J2ME version as well.. Again, I’m not entirely sure I want to do this right now, even if it could potentially be very useful.. Why? Because so far it’ll only be useful for me. I don’t have any readers here, I think, so it’s highly unlikely that anyone is going to find them, much less a chance that they will actually have a use for it. Of course, I could find a way to spread it around, but it would also be a learning experience, which is why I’m considering it in the first place.
The final project I’ve been considering, is a calorie counter. It would be an obvious choice, if it wasn’t for the fact that my friend is working on one too, and from what I’ve been told, it has quite a lot of potential to be good, but on the other hand, we note things down differently when we register calories, so perhaps I should try making a version for myself, just for kicks.. And just to have something to do.. I don’t know.. But at least now I have it down in writing, even if no one else is actually going to see it. So I can think it through a lot better.
Tags: calorie counting, calories, currency, Currency Converter, Eve VM, expense tracker, game, J2ME, Java, sudoku