TIL there's a fizzbuzz equivalent for computer science: "the rainfall problem". It's a fairly simple programming exercise with pretty thorough research about how tricky students find it: https://blog.acthompson.net/2018/01/how-hard-is-that-programming-problem.html (quite hard!)
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OSS components are so common in software stacks now. It might be an interesting exercise to try to build a e.g. a web service with 100% proprietary components.
I'm writing an experimental PL and I want to exercise it on real programs asap. These need to be useful (so I actually try them), but simple (my PL is unfinished).
My current ideas:
* A git fuzzy branch switcher (shell commands)
* dotfiles sync (filesystem access)
Suggestions?