Ask HN: Ideas for toy projects to build as an educational exercise?

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What are some good weekend type clone projects you can build in any language, which serves as just an excuse to get your hands dirty outside of TODO's, or a credit card validation class. Do you know any canonical things to build?

Thinking of a link shortener service, or...

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How about: a time tracker, HN clone/basic forum, simple Google Analytics clone, a password vault/manager (did this one recently, it was a lot of fun, https://github.com/rfunduk/mrpassword).

Or how about some supporting type stuff: app error handling, a recommendation engine for your framework of choice, maybe a simple admin panel for doing support (using Postmark Inbound or some-such).

If you're into web stuff, it's always a good exercise to re-implement some complex plugin in a simpler way. I made a simple 'tour' plugin that a lot of people like (jQuery-TourBus), or you could make a simple carousel plugin, or maybe just make a simple sticky feedback popup thing, etc.

Great suggestions, thanks :)

I have 0 systems programming know how, so I don't even know anything outside of an irc bot to tackle.

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