04 May 2008 2014H

Calendaring apps

It occurs to me that we spend far too little time actually tackling industry-standard problems in school and that is, of course, what we look for when we interview people: has the candidate actually done work that looks like a professional problem, with the inputs and limitations placed upon us by resources available?

If I were to assign such a problem to students, I think calendaring would be among the more difficult but satisfying assignments to work on. When you think about it there are really some fairly complex algorithms to get into code: how to calculate a calendar, for instance, how to display information in a calendar. Then there are the human things, such as how to schedule for events, once, repeating, what if there are multiple events in a day, so on. Then, of course, how to accommodate all the different ways that people have of describing repeating events. I suppose the calendaring could be broken down into small problems since it is such a large project. It is an ideal project of course: there hardly comes a day that we do not encounter some form of calendaring and of course, once designed, you can continuously improve upon it, making it an investment that keeps on giving.

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