I'm starting computer science now, and my first project is redocnE - a simple cipher application, with multiple methods of encryption and decryption. Note that a large number of these methods I'm using the code for from a similar program, although one without any UI, pycipher. (http://agorf.gr/code/pycipher.html). I have emailed the creator of this program, telling him, and it is open source. Still, if this is objectionable to you, I'd be fine with switching to a new project, although I'd finish this myself. Ciphers I'm writing myself are a method of user-defined cipher, ANi_encrypt (a particularly bad character rearangement method I made a while ago, and am only including for backwards-compatability.) and a Bookcode. From pycipher, I'm taking Ceasar, Atbash, autokey, Vigenere, and Beaufort ciphers. This gives me a total of 9 encryption methods, and I'm taking care to use a very modular program structure that lets me add new ones easily. As of now, redocnE (the name is "Encoder" backwards) is nearly done, with only a bit of the user-defined cipher to do, and a lot of debugging.
Oh, If you're wondering about the ANI part of the program names and so on, It's Absolutely Nothing Inc., a company I came up with as a joke a few years ago and now credit basically anything I make with. Any modules called ani_????.py are modules I (or, maybe, a friend i've convinced to start learning python) made for a program, but designed to be useable for other ones.
For the future, I do have a few project ideas, although most would likely be beyond my ability now. I'm interested in pyGTK (which I may actually learn directly, without GASP, unless you think this would be far too hard), Object Oreinted programming, and networking (I have an idea for a p2p shared FTP server/client, but that would be hard to do.). I like the idea of learning pyGTK for GUIs and a few graphical apps, but I'm not interested in writing games much at all.
Anyway, one more thing, just kinda for me to brag about - yesterday I finally managed to get Linux (Linux Mint 7) working on my home computer, so I think I'll probably use the opportunity you're giving us to do some work at home and not come to class occasionally.
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Since you are doing this as an independent study, working from home is a great idea. Be sure to take advantage of the wisdom that Robbie has offer, however.
ReplyDeleteI don't know enough about your programming experience and skill level to have a good sense of whether you can jump into pyGTK directly. Take a look at:
http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html
and see what you can make of it.