Re: Need a project... found a website on mindprod

John T wrote:
First, for those who may not already know, I am NOT a Java programmer. I am learning the language for my own purposes (
Along with Ruby, XML, Perl and Groovy).

I have sucessfully written a Java program which parses an XML file and am using it in my job. I am a technical support person, who specializes in printing systems, namely the way that our systems (HPUX and SunOS) interface with a print server running Easyspooler and Infoprint Manager.

With that in mind, I think I am ready for a project. However, the closest thing I can come up with on my own, as anyone who has read any of my previous threads can tell, is some form of real world modelling. I am *not* convinced that this would be benefical to me as a learning experience.

So let me elaborate on what I have been studying.
I am familiar with classes, interfaces, packages and polymorphism, although interfaces and polymorphism are still somewhat foreign to me. I know a little bit about interfacing with Oracle and MySQL and have done a very rudimentary JSP page which talks to an Oracle database.

Since I have no current projects in my job which require me to do any kind of Java programming (I came up with the XML parser as satisfying a need I had) I am looking for some suggestions.

I have made my way through some of Eckle's book (and even have had an email from him). I have worked my way through the first portion of the Sun Java Tutorial. I've studied the Horstmann books (text for a class I took in Java) and, my favorite, Head First Java.

I would like to do something with what I have learned. I'm not ready for GUI programming yet, nor do I want something trivial. Perhaps someone out there has written something along the lines of what I am looking for and would be willing to share with me the requirements for what they did. From the requirements, I can do a Use-Case and UML diagrams and from there, get to the coding.

*Remember* I come from a procedural language (COBOL) background and have done very little OOP aside from SAS (does anyone remember SAS) and some Delphi, so please, be gentle. A simple project is all I am looking for. I'm not going to market it and I'm not going to post my code here looking for suggestions on how to clean it up.


Since no one has come up with anything I did a google search (GIYF) for
beginner java project and this is one of the sites which came up.

http://mindprod.com/projects/beginner.html

Do these make sense as beginner projects or am I out of my league again?
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