Ask HN: Concurrent Programming Projects for beginners?
I have spent a lot of time writing web applications from backend-to-front end (I am sure there is lot more to learn there), but I got bored and wanted to learn something I never learned(and wanted to).
I am talking about Concurrent Programming. I mostly work with Java but in order to learn Concurrency, I picked Erlang and I want to invest my time learning this language and do some projects to further strengthen my understanding.
I admit, that I love Erlang for the parts I read so far. I like syntax(its not verbose) and a very different approach to programming.
I want to ask what projects a beginner can work on related to Concurrent Programming Model. I am blank headed right now and need guidance.
Please enlighten me with your advices and experience. Books, resources, videos, etc all are very much welcomed here.
Thanks a lot in advance
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[ 3.3 ms ] story [ 20.8 ms ] threadHere are a few ideas:
* Improve/extend the shoutcast server in Joe's book "Programming Erlang" (1st edition; I haven't read the 2nd edition)
* Make a simple dropbox tool to sync folders across machines
* Make a simple map/reduce tool to learn about that paradigm
* Build a chat server with web interface (this one is fairly common)
* Interested in VOIP? Try making something that can allow you to make VOIP calls between computers in your house
* Build a web server (also common enough to find lots of examples and tutorials)
* Twitter clone
* Log aggregator
* BitTorrent client
* Distributed hash table or NoSQL database
* Something to stream data (logs, newsfeeds, analytics) to or from multiple clients
* ....
I hope this helps :)
[ Edit: formatting is really hard on HN... :( ]