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Project suggestions for a beginner [closed]

I'm a rather beginner in Python and looking for project ideas. I don't want to reinvent the wheel and I just can't think of any ideas for a project which hasn't been implemented before. Also I want to ...
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How do you go about understanding the source code of an Open source project? [closed]

I am planning to contribute code through patches to some open source organisations to become more aware of open source development. I have chosen some organisations but when I download their source ...
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Good open source projects to master Python concurrency [closed]

Concurrent programming in Python is very colorful (and confusing too). There's just too many options with each having it's pros and cons... Thread based (threading module) Process based ( ...
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Getting involved in an open-source Python-Java project [closed]

I'm a first-year PhD student in Ireland. My background is in mathematics, though I'm going to stream my career into programming with Python, Java and C++ languages. I have some good experience with ...
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What should I do before open sourcing a project?

I am planning on opening sourcing a project that I've been working on for a while and that I think would benefit the community. I've already cleaned up the code, added a reasonable license, and wrote ...
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Any advices for someone looking to start an opensource project in Python/Django?

I'm starting to feel confident in my Python skills so i would like to start an open source project to further sharp my Python skills (as my current job is with PHP unfortunately) and also to give ...
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Looking for an open source project in Python

I am looking for practical tasks to get experience with Python. Just reading the books and not doing any tasks in the language is not effective. I solved some problems on the Project Euler and ...
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Open source projects, how to choose?

I would like to join an open source project since I think I am good enough at programming to progress onto reading others code and to modify it. But the proble mis, how would I choose an open source ...
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Why hasn't C# gained much traction within the opensource community?

I'm not expecting C# to be on par with say Java or Python in the open source community, but it still surprises me just how far behind it is. 'Multi language' open source repos like google code or ...