Is it possible as a full-time uni student with moderate CS experience to learn to program/develop a software that would organize my tasks/files? More below
Posted by LopsidedFox_24@reddit | learnprogramming | View on Reddit | 5 comments
My hope is that it would be one place where I could have different features like Gantt charts, calendars, to do lists, notes, documents, etc. that are all interconnected and linked to one another in one large workspace. It would also be nice to have integrated web access. I don't know much about software development right now, but is it possible to make something simple like this for myself in a reasonable amount of time?
plastikmissile@reddit
Just go ahead and do it. Even if takes you longer than "a reasonable amount of time", you will have learned a ton of stuff, and that's far more valuable than whatever app you actually wanted to make.
LopsidedFox_24@reddit (OP)
Thanks, just not sure where to even start lol
EmperorLlamaLegs@reddit
Make a list of must have features, like displaying a gantt chart. Break that down into smaller pieces, how do you access the file, how do you parse the file, how do you display the contents on screen?
Then choose one of those and break it down as necessary. What library to access filesystem? What functions do you need to read all filenames in a directory, now you need a module to only list the right filetype, whats the best way to load a file accounting for possible errors like empty files, files with wrong data, files that moved or were deleted before you loaded them, filenames that had special characters, etc.
You have officially started. Keep doing that.
plastikmissile@reddit
Start small. Just make an app that displays text. Then make it display an image. Then a takes data to make a graph. Just keep building up to it.
GregoryKeithM@reddit
no nothing is going to move files around for you on a windows machine unless you move them around yourself, physically, with the mouse-pointer.