README.md

Welcome to the GitHub Repo for Skin a Cat!

Skin a Cat is a labor of love for me, a sort of legendary undertaking, in which I attempt to take several different languages and within them, write the same programs over and over.

Why?

I'm hoping that in the course of doing this crazy thing, I'll not only be sharing my own meager knowlege, I'll also become a better programmer in the process. I'll be doing my best to adhere to established Best Practices and Design Patterns, and to the principles of DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) Programming, and if I find a better way of doing something than the way I've already posted, I'll be sure and update the posted code to reflect that

Projects:

• Here kitty, kitty...
  • Skin a Cat's version of "Hello World", the basic, worthless, "Look, Mom, I wrote a program!" program that all programming courses start you out with. Twenty-two languages covered, some with multiple examples.
• FizzBuzz
  • Another beginner program, but with a twist... I'm attempting to do it with no if/else structures. Four languages covered so far, with more to come.
• Legacy Projects
  • When I first created this project seven years ago, I had a few other projects I was attempting, which have been (mostly) abandoned. This is due to me no longer having the same dev-env I was using at the time (used to be on Linux, am on Mac now)
    • LifeForm: An excercise in class inheritance, deleted. I was so damned embarrassed of the c-sharp and c++ code when I went back and read it, and have no intention of doing so much php code ever again.
    • Euler: Excersises from Project Euler, the main inspiration for this project. I may be picking these back up.

Languages Covered:

• Awk
• C
• C++
• Clojure
• COBOL
• C-sharp
• D
• Erlang
• Fortran
• Haskell
• HTML
• Java
• JavaScript
• Objective-C
• OCaml
• Perl
• PHP
• Python
• Ruby
• Scala
• Sed
• vb.net

_{* NOTE: Every language will not be represented in every project, depends on my level of interest; I get bored easily.}