Lazycoder

What if you don’t have an itch to scratch

So I’m wantingto learn Python, Ruby, and more Cocoa but the problem is that I don’t have an itch to scratch. Throughout my programming “career” all of my learning has been problem driven. I’ve needed to do something to solve a particular problem and I’ve researched how to do it in the language I’m currently working in. All of the problems I have, image management, music library, etc…, all have solutions that work for me. What should I work on?

I haven’t thought about writing any CGI applications in either Python or Ruby because PHP solves those problems for me on the Mac and ASP.NET solves them for me on Windows. Plus I don’t really have any web based applications that I want to write. Maybe that’s what I’ll try, either a web based forum or a blog? Maybe just a simple CMS? I’m not even sure if you can create a GUI on the Mac in Python or Ruby.