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As part of my own ongoing learning I was thinking about writing a (intermediate to advanced) book about the mechanics of writing software in C++.

As an example the book could include a practical language guide to C++ itself, a chapter on CMake (and what actually happens during linking), testing, using the debugger, profiling / benchmarking etc.

Obviously this would be a huge undertaking and I don't expect to actually write all of this, but it's the sort of information that I personally would like to see written down in one place.

I'm going to go ahead with this for my own reference and learning, but would this be of any interest to anyone else here, and would anyone like to collaborate?

What technical projects do you think should exist in the world? What hard problems exist in your field? Where do you think the frontiers of science/technology lie?

I'm interested in learning about hard technical problems you think are worth solving.

What technologies do we need to develop or promote to make it safer to return to a pre-coronavirus world?

I.e: - Abundant passive fever cameras? - 'At home' salivary testing kits for contagious diseases? - Handheld devices for detecting pathogens on surfaces?

During this quarantine period I'm looking for a biotech / bioinformatics side project to work on -- does anybody have any suggestions?

I'm a software engineer, but if you have non software related ideas then please share those too for anyone else that is interested.

Another way of framing this question: what projects are worth working on right now?

Thank you!

Hi,

Where does everyone go to find inspiration / existing side projects to work on? (Primarily in computer science / software engineering).