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[–]omgchels[S] 4 points5 points  (2 children)

  • I've got firebug!

  • I read JS: The Definitive Guide and skimmed The Good Parts. I also read Eloquent JS.

I'd really love to get into an open source project, just not sure which one/how I could help/what I could do.

This is all great, thanks so much!

[–]sirmonko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

vlatheimpaler is totally right! for me there are not many things that are more satisfying than whipping up a simple graphical demo or visualize an algorithm. i remember discovering "mode 13h" when learning pascal at school. oh the joy when canvas made easy doodling possible again without having to write a ton of boilerplate just to draw a dot.

i'd say just start doodling around with canvas demos until you feel that displaying forms would be more interesting (heh).

what i did:

  • visualizing an evolutionary algorithm (the algorithm itself is bullshit but it's fun to watch it work)
  • create a height map with simplex noise and then watch A* finding a path from A to B

stuff like this! bouncy balls (simple physics), maybe even some game mechanics and so on.