Ilya,
I'm sorry I didn't see that typo. I've fixed it now. Email me and I will respond if you want to make sure. I also have marcus.koontz AT comcast.net if thats sounds better.

Ilya Minkov wrote:
> I believe "adopting" someone who has a fake e-mail adress is not a very good perspective. This stinks even more than the ubitiquous "nigerian letter".
> 
> -eye
> 
> Marcus IkeaTheSofa wrote:
> 
>> Hello fellow netizens,
>> This is a selfless plea to be adopted by a competent programmer. I have lots of time on my hands, energy and a burning passion to learn. I'm looking for someone with a few extra minutes to guide me and help me learn good programming practices and design. I'm basically looking for a mentor of sorts to email or message back and forth with me and occasionally have take a look at my code and critique it. Maybe when I don't understand how to do something, give me a few pointers. I post this message here in D land because out of all the languages I've been learning (C++, PHP, Java, D, Visual Basic), I like D the best and would like to be on the cusp of emerging technology.. hehehe... Anyone interested in helping reply to this message or email me at marcus.koontz
>> at comcast.net.
>>
>> (speaking of mentoring a programmers mentoring website would be sweet.. I'll have to look into starting something of the sort)
>>
>> Age: 22
>> Location: Spokane, WA, USA
>> Name: Marcus

Lynn Allan wrote:
> Hi Marcus,
> 
> What is your development environment? Windows? Linux?
> 
> Do you have something in mind you want to do?
> 
> I was working on a project that stalled out for lack of time on my
> part, and could use some help. I'd be glad to try to direct your
> efforts to get it moving again.
> 
> 

Actually I'm working in windows xp, but am trying to get gentoo Linux up and running how I want it also and would be open to developing in that also. Right now I have two programs I want to do just to get used to the programming.

They kind of go hand in hand:

#1 A program that you input ingredients you have in your house, and then
it compares the things you have to a database of recipes and outputs things you can cook which you can then select and print a recipe.

#2 A program thats prints out a random schedule based on user input that includes exercise, todo's and meals. I figure I can probably use the first program in the second program to help with the meals part. Then the user can print out a schedule.


I would be happy to help you with anything I can, in fact I've been looking around source forge to see if there was any opportunity to help for an inexperienced programmer like me. What kind of project is it? I learn pretty fast, so looking at your code if your in that phase would help a lot. Email me at Marcus.Koontz at comcast.net, I usually use ikea_the_sofa at hotmail.com as a filter email.

"Walter" <newshound@digitalmars.com> wrote:

[...]
> Fake email addresses are the sad result of spam email address harvesters.
[...]
The times for email harvesters and spam mail against private people
are gone since the USA (?) installed a law against spam. I never
faked my email adress and now I have about 30 spams/year.

-manfred

Marcus IkeaTheSofa wrote:
> Lynn Allan wrote:
> 
>> Hi Marcus,
>>
>> What is your development environment? Windows? Linux?
>>
>> Do you have something in mind you want to do?
>>
>> I was working on a project that stalled out for lack of time on my
>> part, and could use some help. I'd be glad to try to direct your
>> efforts to get it moving again.
>>
>>
> 
> Actually I'm working in windows xp, but am trying to get gentoo Linux up and running how I want it also and would be open to developing in that also. Right now I have two programs I want to do just to get used to the programming.
> 
> They kind of go hand in hand:
> 
> #1 A program that you input ingredients you have in your house, and then
> it compares the things you have to a database of recipes and outputs things you can cook which you can then select and print a recipe.
> 
> #2 A program thats prints out a random schedule based on user input that includes exercise, todo's and meals. I figure I can probably use the first program in the second program to help with the meals part. Then the user can print out a schedule.
> 
> 
> I would be happy to help you with anything I can, in fact I've been looking around source forge to see if there was any opportunity to help for an inexperienced programmer like me. What kind of project is it? I learn pretty fast, so looking at your code if your in that phase would help a lot. Email me at Marcus.Koontz at comcast.net, I usually use ikea_the_sofa at hotmail.com as a filter email.

Wow, those programs sound remarkably like something I was discussing with my wife just a few days ago. Have you been spying on me and stealing my ideas? :P

Anyway, the thing that I added was for the program to connect to an instant messenger server and send messages every once in a while to remind you to get off the computer for 15 minutes and do some jumping jacks or something to keep the blood flowing and whatnot and to remind you of meetings and whatnot, perhaps. And also to not only pick meals for you, but to try and pick a balanced diet for you, not giving you more than your daily value of anything.

-- 
-PIB

--
"C++ also supports the notion of *friends*: cooperative classes that
are permitted to see each other's private parts." - Grady Booch

Paul It sounds like we have similar problems..lol.
Anyways, those sound like good idea's to add in.
I was going to base my recipe database on a book/diet I've been trying to follow (Absdiet by David Zinczenko) and also add some recipes from Mediterranean Diet by Marissa Cloutier/Eve Adamson. In these books the meals are set into categorys and it would only pick recipes from the right category for the time (breakfast meals for morning, etc)The calories are already counted for these recipes and it would be easy to set a caloric limit. I have no clue how to connect to instant message server, but would be an interesting trial.

Paul Bonser wrote:
> Marcus IkeaTheSofa wrote:
> 
>> Lynn Allan wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Marcus,
>>>
>>> What is your development environment? Windows? Linux?
>>>
>>> Do you have something in mind you want to do?
>>>
>>> I was working on a project that stalled out for lack of time on my
>>> part, and could use some help. I'd be glad to try to direct your
>>> efforts to get it moving again.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Actually I'm working in windows xp, but am trying to get gentoo Linux up and running how I want it also and would be open to developing in that also. Right now I have two programs I want to do just to get used to the programming.
>>
>> They kind of go hand in hand:
>>
>> #1 A program that you input ingredients you have in your house, and then
>> it compares the things you have to a database of recipes and outputs things you can cook which you can then select and print a recipe.
>>
>> #2 A program thats prints out a random schedule based on user input that includes exercise, todo's and meals. I figure I can probably use the first program in the second program to help with the meals part. Then the user can print out a schedule.
>>
>>
>> I would be happy to help you with anything I can, in fact I've been looking around source forge to see if there was any opportunity to help for an inexperienced programmer like me. What kind of project is it? I learn pretty fast, so looking at your code if your in that phase would help a lot. Email me at Marcus.Koontz at comcast.net, I usually use ikea_the_sofa at hotmail.com as a filter email.
> 
> 
> Wow, those programs sound remarkably like something I was discussing with my wife just a few days ago. Have you been spying on me and stealing my ideas? :P
> 
> Anyway, the thing that I added was for the program to connect to an instant messenger server and send messages every once in a while to remind you to get off the computer for 15 minutes and do some jumping jacks or something to keep the blood flowing and whatnot and to remind you of meetings and whatnot, perhaps. And also to not only pick meals for you, but to try and pick a balanced diet for you, not giving you more than your daily value of anything.
> 


-- 

Marcus Koontz
ikea_the_sofa AT hotmail.com
“Be the change you want to see in the world”

Marcus IkeaTheSofa wrote:
> Lynn Allan wrote:
> 
>> Hi Marcus,
>>
>> What is your development environment? Windows? Linux?
>>
>> Do you have something in mind you want to do?
>>
>> I was working on a project that stalled out for lack of time on my
>> part, and could use some help. I'd be glad to try to direct your
>> efforts to get it moving again.
>>
>>
> 
> Actually I'm working in windows xp, but am trying to get gentoo Linux up and running how I want it also and would be open to developing in that also. Right now I have two programs I want to do just to get used to the programming.

Once you get used to programming in Linux, you'll wonder how people can use Windows.  I do just about everything now on the command line with scripts.

> 
> They kind of go hand in hand:
> 
> #1 A program that you input ingredients you have in your house, and then
> it compares the things you have to a database of recipes and outputs things you can cook which you can then select and print a recipe.

Sounds like a handy program.  I'll bet it would catch on.  The problem is getting the database of recipies.  For an adventure in text parsing, write a program that crawls a site like allrecipies.com and steals their database- you wouldn't want to distribute this database of course... just have it for personal use.... merely an academic exercies.  (But you could probably send me a copy.)


> 
> #2 A program thats prints out a random schedule based on user input that includes exercise, todo's and meals. I figure I can probably use the first program in the second program to help with the meals part. Then the user can print out a schedule.
> 
> 
> I would be happy to help you with anything I can, in fact I've been looking around source forge to see if there was any opportunity to help for an inexperienced programmer like me. What kind of project is it? I learn pretty fast, so looking at your code if your in that phase would help a lot. Email me at Marcus.Koontz at comcast.net, I usually use ikea_the_sofa at hotmail.com as a filter email.

If you just want stuff to work on, in D, browse around dsource.org... I'm sure most of the projects there would welcome the help.  I also welcome any help on my big project, neuralNexus (neuralnexus.com).


John Demme

Marcus IkeaTheSofa wrote:
> Paul It sounds like we have similar problems..lol.
> Anyways, those sound like good idea's to add in.
> I was going to base my recipe database on a book/diet I've been trying to follow (Absdiet by David Zinczenko) and also add some recipes from Mediterranean Diet by Marissa Cloutier/Eve Adamson. In these books the meals are set into categorys and it would only pick recipes from the right category for the time (breakfast meals for morning, etc)The calories are already counted for these recipes and it would be easy to set a caloric limit. I have no clue how to connect to instant message server, but would be an interesting trial.

Well, there are lots of Jabber libraries out there, and they are fairly easy to use. It's easy to implement since it's just XML that it sends. But yeah, you could probably just use a C jabber lib in D until someone implements one in D. From there, you can set up a Jabber server (this is where that Gentoo box you're setting up comes in, I have one set up on my Gentoo box for tinkering around with) and Transports for all the other messenger protocols, so you can send messages to any IM account on any service (maybe even to your cell phone :).
Hey, if you wanted, we could work on this together :) It could be quite interesting, I think. I'm fairy experienced in programming in general, and fairly new to D (I've just started my first D project and have nothing complete to show for it yet.) It could be fun to work on such a program, especially since I was already talking about making something so similar.

 Maybe we could get a little web interface hacked together for it, too, so it is configurable from anywhere :)

-- 
-PIB

--
"C++ also supports the notion of *friends*: cooperative classes that
are permitted to see each other's private parts." - Grady Booch

> Actually I'm working in windows xp, but am trying to get gentoo
Linux up
> and running how I want it also and would be open to developing in
that
> also. Right now I have two programs I want to do just to get used to
the
> programming.

Here are two projects that could potentially use your participation:

One is a port of an existing Windows freeware open source app that uses MFC. It is a relatively simple gui. I started using the Win32 api for widgets, then tried out dfl, sdwf, and looked at the other guil libs. It's been on hold since Dec until D and the gui lib's mature. Looks like vathix's DFL library has had several releases since then. This would be for windows.

Another would be a sound library. It would put 'wrappers' around some open source, mature c libraries like libsndfile, libmad, sox, and/or lame. The idea is to put together a console app that can read in .mp3 or .wav files, apply some effects that have been rewritten from C to D (dc.bias, normalize, noise reduction, click removal, etc.) and write out .mp3 or .wav files. This would be cross-platform.

Would either of these interest you?