Easy to start project to contribute

[sanzilla]

hi all,
Can anyone suggest me a open source project that I can download
and start reading the code and may be contribute(writing patches).

I'm a newbie. I have readed more coding styles books and I think
I'm oky with core C++ concepts and the bild tool chains.

can anybody give me a idea about this?

[JoR]

I had a lot of fun playing around with the Sauerbraten ( http://sauerbraten.org/ ) sources. They are included in the official binary packages.

[sanzilla]

>>I had a lot of fun playing around with the Sauerbraten ( http://sauerbraten.org/ ) sources. They are included in the official binary packages.

thanks JoR, any more ideas ?
anyone other's ideas? please share.

[sanzilla]

I'm looking forward for more ideas !
please reply.

[4Gb4jE8b]

contributing? i dunno, buuuuut

http://www.cplusplus.com/src/

has some fun beginners stuff that i messed with

[sohguanh]

How about a simple project of developing an automated generator for ASCII arts ?

Back during last year 2010 Christmas, a few forum-ers actually "hand-drawn" it before post in this forum. I find it so tedious.

If this project take off, we can easily generate many more "Beautiful" ASCII arts instantaneously! :P

[4Gb4jE8b]

@sohguanh
though i do like your idea, I really don't think that's something a beginner could do. It would involve analyzing an image, comparing each set of however many pixels to a set of ASCII characters, and then outputting the array correctly. But again, I do like you're idea, and it would teach someone quite a bit.

[sohguanh]

It would involve analyzing an image, comparing each set of however many pixels to a set of ASCII characters

The requirements could be something simple for the first version. Program user don't need to input any image. Instead he can just enter the word you want to be ASCII-ized. Maybe specify how many characters wide and how many characters high.

E.g
Usage: genAscii <word> <characters wide> <characters height>

genAscii "Merry Christmas 2011" 100 200

Then the generator can generate any C++ code that compile but do nothing useful. What we want is the source code displayed in ASCII arts form and we have achieved our objective.

I believe this simpler requirements will kick-start the project easier. Input image for analyzing can be added later on once we get the simple going first.

Edit:
Alternatively we can add in user input C++ code and the genAscii do the formatting based on the input.

E.g
genAscii "Merry Christmas 2011" 100 200 "mylongprogram.cpp"

Then the mylongprogram.cpp source code will be formatted to look like "Merry Christmas 2011" that is 100 wide and 200 high for example.