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by chris11
6338 days ago
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I've been thinking about starting a side project as a learning experience. So what are the ideas and knowledge that you have found most helpful in your current projects? I think having goals about what I wanted to learn would be more beneficial than just doing something, so I'm wondering what all of you want to learn in your businesses/startups. |
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This is kind of a broad question.
For ideas, I usually look at the usual sources for inspiration such as my favorite applications. One of my favorite things to do is to read academic journals and try to implement some of the algorithms in a way that can be used by consumers.
>>> what I wanted to learn would be more beneficial than just doing something <<<
Well, to me this is a trade off.
If I just want to "learn things", I'd probably spend all my time in MATLAB experimenting with interesting code snippets that no one else in the world will see or use. ( I would also apply to grad school... something which I'm trying to avoid at this point ).
On the other end of the spectrum, I don't want to be one of those "web developers" who spends all their time writing the same "to-do-list" or "my own blog system" in some cool new language.
In the end, I think there needs to be a balance of challenge and practicality of the projects which I work on. It has to be technically challenging enough to keep me interested and yet it has to have some practical value so that at the end of the day, I have something to show for it. =)