Programming in C#

I have downloaded C# to our main Linux box and plan to start using it my stock analysis program. It involves downloading data from the internet, performance of calculations, generation of graphics and HTML to display them, uploading of result files and generation of HTML so other people can download them, and setting the program to run automatically at a certain time for all weekdays. Christian is studying programming in C#. He has been studying on and off for a couple of years now and I have been trying to find a programming project that would be both interesting to him and that will use the skills he is accumulating. There are a couple of websites he likes to visit every day. One of them is Giveaway of the Day. Another is Game Giveaway of the Day. I think he has a website or two that has to do with his Palm TX. A good program for him to write is one that would automatically accumulate the names of the newly available downloads from the sites he watches onto a HTML page that he uploads to his blog with accompanying links. He would learn a TON doing it and it would have some utility for him. I will have some example code for him to review as the projects are similar to each other.

Yesterday was the first meeting of the swim team at the YMCA, but the kids ran rather than swam because the water was too cold. They will be working out in the evenings for the next couple of weeks until school lets out for the government school kids and the workouts shift to the mornings.