[Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

[Alexander Klenin]

On Sat, Sep 12, 2009 at 09:48, Doug
Chamberlin<dougchamberlin at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Alexander Klenin wrote:
>>
>> So I request community for a suitable ideas -- projects should be
>> reasonably self-contained, not too hard, require actual coding and
>> be interesting enough to motivate students.
>
> During the Embarcadero CodeRage sessions this week I took a look at the
> IOUtils unit introduced in Delphi 2010. I expect developers to start using
> it as they tart to use Delphi 2010 more and more. It would be a big
> advantage to have an FPC version of this unit.
>
> I have no idea how other Delphi-compatible functionality was developed but I
> expect the right thing to do is obtain the interface for this unit and have
> the students re-implement the functionality using FPC.

This is good idea, but unfortunately, there is not a chance to start before
the release for Delphi 2010. Also, I can not expect students to obey strict
clean room procedures required for such reimplementation.

-- 
Alexander S. Klenin