{"id":10534,"date":"2015-01-19T15:38:28","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T20:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10534"},"modified":"2015-01-20T14:06:44","modified_gmt":"2015-01-20T19:06:44","slug":"kindling-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/19\/kindling-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindling Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nedbatchelder.com\/text\/kindling.html\">Ned Batchelder<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/nedbatchelder.com\/text\/kindling.html\"><p>New programmers often need small projects to work on as they hone their skills. Exercises in courses are too small, and don&rsquo;t leave much room for self-direction or extending to follow the interests of the student. &ldquo;Real&rdquo; projects, either in the open-source world or at work, tend to be overwhelming and come with real-world constraints that prevent experimentation and pure coding practice.<\/p><p>Kindling projects are meant to fill this gap: simple enough that a new learner can take them on, but with possibilities for extension and creativity. Large enough that there isn&rsquo;t one right answer, but designed to be hacked on by a learner simply to flex their muscles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2015-01-20): <a href=\"http:\/\/minutestomidnight.net\/blog\/2015\/1\/my-new-app-as-a-kindling-project\">Tim Schmitz<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/minutestomidnight.net\/blog\/2015\/1\/my-new-app-as-a-kindling-project\"><p>Ned is mostly talking about new programmers, but this is quite similar to what I had in mind when I started my current app project. The idea was to get some experience working with Swift as well as a few other technologies that I haven't worked with extensively in the past. Even though I'm not new to programming, we're all relatively new to Swift.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ned Batchelder: New programmers often need small projects to work on as they hone their skills. Exercises in courses are too small, and don&rsquo;t leave much room for self-direction or extending to follow the interests of the student. &ldquo;Real&rdquo; projects, either in the open-source world or at work, tend to be overwhelming and come with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[71],"class_list":["post-10534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10549,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10534\/revisions\/10549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}