I’m looking for recommendations for open-source projects written in C++ that will help me “get my chops back”. A little background:
- I’ve been working heavily in Java for the last three years, doing a lot of back-end development and system design, but with a fair amount of work in the presentation layer stuff, too.
- The last C++ projects I worked on were a Visual C++ 6 project (designed to interact with Visual Basic) for mobile devices and several projects using the GNU toolchain circa gcc versions 2.x to 3.2
- I’m looking to get back up to speed on the language and learn some of the popular frameworks, specifically the basics of boost (although boost seems fairly sprawling to me, similar to the kitchen-sink feel of Spring in the java space) and test driven development in C++.
What I’m looking for:
Specific recommendations for small to mid-size open source projects to poke through and perhaps contribute to as I level my C++ skills back up. The problem domain isn’t important, except that I would like to work on something in a new area to broaden my experience.
Edit:
A few people have commented that it’s difficult to provide a recommendation without some indication of the problem domain I’d like to work in. So, I’ve decided that I’m most interested in graphics applications or games, two areas which I haven’t worked in before.
If you like visual stuff, openFrameworks is a C++ Framework for doing Processing-type applications. http://www.openframeworks.cc/ I’m not sure how viable it still is, but it looked pretty cool.
It’s hard to suggest something like this, you really don’t have any itches you want to scratch??