Just take a GUI library, a network library, a regex parser, a mime/XML/html parser, and an audio library; taken into any combination, you will have something that solves an interesting problem. Something as "big" as a web server can be written with just the system calls built into every unix :-)
Great advice; unlike an artist who is burdened with a blank canvas, a programmer does not share this burden. You don't need to start with this blank canvas, instead heed mahmud's words and get your finger-tips dirty with some libraries and modules as a place to start.
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Just take a GUI library, a network library, a regex parser, a mime/XML/html parser, and an audio library; taken into any combination, you will have something that solves an interesting problem. Something as "big" as a web server can be written with just the system calls built into every unix :-)
Great advice; unlike an artist who is burdened with a blank canvas, a programmer does not share this burden. You don't need to start with this blank canvas, instead heed mahmud's words and get your finger-tips dirty with some libraries and modules as a place to start.