Current in bold. Completed in strikethrough.
Learn a variety of programming languages:
- Write a program in Python
- Write a program in C
- Write a program in Java
Learn a variety of programming paradigms:
- Write a program in assembly language
- Write an application in a functional language
Write an application in an object-oriented language
- Write an application in a prototype-based language
- Write an application in a logic programming language
- Write an application using the Actor model
- Write an application in Forth
Experience the ins and outs of programming outside of my usual field (web apps):
- Write a nontrivial desktop app
- Write a nontrivial mobile app
- Write a nontrivial game
- Write an embedded app
- Write a realtime system
Enhance my understanding of the building blocks that we use as developers:
- Write a networking client (e.g., HTTP, FTP)
- Write a device driver
- Write a B-tree database
- Wrap an existing library to provide a better (more pleasant) user experience
- Write an application or framework that provides a plugin model
- Write a testing framework
- Write a programming language
Enlighten myself with koans, katas, and the wisdom of ages:
Program in the open:
Contribute to an open source project
Have a patch accepted
- Earn commit rights on a significant open source project
Publish an open source project
- Perform a Refactotum of on open source project
Learn by teaching others:
- Present a lightning talk
Present at a local user group
- Present at a conference
- Deliver a training course
- Publish a tutorial
- Publish a constructive code review of an open source project
- Write a programming book