At the University of Washington we were taught C/C++ and the standard coding principles and best practices. Programming for an OS in 2000 meant giving up any hope of having a social life and staring at a monitor for the foreseeable future.
As of late, I find the barrier to entry of programming to be continually decreasing. New platform / operating systems require much less work than before (Android Developer Kit, Facebook Developers Site, Apple Developer Site). Facebook, Google, and Apple now supply a standard library of variables to make an app in less time than creating a pivot table.
My goal is to develop a new app that focuses on capturing more "offline" content. Let's start with something near and dear to my heart. FOOoooOd!
Picture this, you're out at a restaurant, a dinner party, or at home and you taste something that really jumps out at you. What are the first things you ask yourself / the chef?
1) What is in this?
2) How did you make this?
3) Can you give me the recipe?
Imagine a slot machine type application that has meat, vegetables, herbs, liquids, and cookware (frying pan, baking sheet, stovepot, kettle, etc). You simply click the meat, vegetables, herbs, liquids, and cookware to remember the basic things to recreate this masterpiece later (at least help you remember).
I can see building this on FB, Google, and Apple.
Thoughts?
Joel
