Following up on a recent thread[1] about ideas for a community-built JHS app, I figured it'd be best in chat for now.
As I was hanging up Christmas lights this weekend (early, I know), I started to get into the holiday spirit which served as an inspiration Ideas. 1. Holiday Gift Tracker Track people and gifts to buy. Input a person's name and a total desired amount and then enter the line items. The app will keep a running total per person and total spend amount. Include a few graphs to show J's capability to visualize data 2. Advent of Code inspired code-sharing app Share a coding challenge and encourage others to participate by sharing setup code, test cases, and the solutions This idea came from participating in the Advent of Code[2] last year. It was good fun. Since we are all using the same language, we could post the challenge (or link to it) each day to the JHS app. The app could be used for other community purposes down the road: Features: 2.1. A user can post or link to a problem description 2.2. A user can post or link to code to set up the problem (e.g. set up initial arrays or parse an external file 2.3. A user can post code to validate the solution (e.g. test cases) 2.3. Other users can share their solutions and see other's solutions that have been made available 2.4. Other users can amend the list of test cases 2.5 A user can run a solution on their own computer (need to think through security implications here.... At least make sure they can review code before running it) Do either of these ideas sound interesting to the community? I'll keep fishing if not Thanks, Joe 1 - http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2016-October/046023.html 2 - http://adventofcode.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
