Originally Posted by kojacker

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One thing bothering me is I don't see too many beginners getting involved. That's one of the main aims of the competition, anyone have any ideas to achieve that?

I have an hour or two before I hit the sack, I might write up a short beginner tutorial following on from the good works of mikec and fatalsaint.. hmm need ideas..

Originally Posted by ArchiMark

Great point....as I'm just a code noob....

I just built a 'Hello World!" app, can I enter that in the noob category????



That would be greatly appreciated!....then I can proceed to the next level and make an interactive, multimedia 'Hello World' app!!!

Originally Posted by kojacker

One thing bothering me is I don't see too many beginners getting involved. That's one of the main aims of the competition, anyone have any ideas to achieve that?

Originally Posted by kojacker

lol.. well they say nothing worthwhile was ever easy

We'd be very glad to have you aboard Lullen, feel free to sign in the list of participants (wiki) at any time. If you're not sure of your project name yet, just put 'tbd' (to be determined) in there and update it later

Originally Posted by kojacker

It's a bit quiet today, so I thought I would pop in. In other words, *bump*!

We've been going just over a week now, 16 projects are listed on the wiki, $365 of bounty pledges, and we've had 1669 views of the page - so not a bad start I reckon

Let's hope we can keep it going and build on it

One thing bothering me is I don't see too many beginners getting involved. That's one of the main aims of the competition, anyone have any ideas to achieve that?

I have an hour or two before I hit the sack, I might write up a short beginner tutorial following on from the good works of mikec and fatalsaint.. hmm need ideas..

Originally Posted by helex

Nice Kojacker, thankyou.

Could you try youself a other audio example?

I asked 4 days ago here for help to get a signal from the microphone. Could you please try to help and look into it?

In my opinon I have a great Idea for a really nice project. But, I'm only a python and Qt beginner. So I guess the skill level for the core element of my application is to hight for me.

I need "only" every 20 to 100ms the sound level (noise) of the microphone. A spectrum would be even better, but I don't need it. Here is a C++ expample how it should also work at the N900: Link
I have all other needed parts or know how to do.

If it is impossible to do something like this in python, could someone please provide me a Library that could do the trick for me?

Originally Posted by Lullen

I think there need to be more guides that do not expect you to do some thinking on your own(trolltech guides can be hard). This is my first qt program I write, even my first c++ program and I have had some problems with guides that expect you to understand a bit but you don't. I think that a lot of the problem I have been struggling have been the enviroment and a lot of that have been fixed in the new SDK. Before that I had big problems with compiling etc so I never wrote more then 10 lines of code.

Originally Posted by kojacker

Interactive multimedia Hello World might be quite good, enter it anyway

Alright.. you all wanted it. Pleaded for it. Begged on your knees for it! Ok.. nobody really wanted it but the first fart app for the N900 is here!

Build a simple Fart App in 30 Mins! N900, PyQt



It's a simple tutorial I made, it's not the greatest ever but it might be useful for those who want to learn more about Qt and using Phonon for sound playback and.. farts. Farting in general. It's meant to carry on from the previous beginner tutorials, so visit those first (MikeCs and FatalSaints "Windows.. 30 mins" stickied thread.

I feel so unclean.. *runs off to take a shower*