HN: Help me choose a Clojure project

4 points by petesalty 16y ago ↗ HN

I'm looking to learn more about Clojure and, of course, the best way to learn is to do. I'd like to do a small project, maybe around 4 to 6 weeks total, and I'm sure I could come up with something, but I thought I'd throw it open to HN and see what others might suggest, to get to know some of Clojures strengths and weaknesses. Whatever I end up doing I'll blog about and release as OSS, hopefully providing something back to the community.

Suggest away.

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pavelludiq 16y ago ↗

Im sort of in a similar position. I've writen only a few toy apps in clojure. Im thinking about writing some sort of game. There are a few clojure versions of snake, tetris and pong floating around the net, so i have were to look at to learn, but im thinking about something a little more complicated than a tetris clone.

petesalty 16y ago ↗

Thanks for the suggestion. I was actually thinking about something that could make use of concurrent programming, so maybe some kind of game that utilizes this isn't a bad idea.

cschep 16y ago ↗

multiplayer (6 player network style, or something cool like that) tetris?

MMORPG based on snake. Thousands of snakes running around trying to eat the apples and get the epic armor.

nas 16y ago ↗

I'm planning to learn Clojure too. I plan to write a Durus (http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/durus/) server. There is nothing Python specific (AFAIK) about the server and it's small and clean enough to be a good project.