01-08-2010
Volunteer?
You might be able to volunteer, however I am not sure that you would be able to volunteer unix skills to any organization.
As Neo said, determine a project for yourself to improve your own skills.
Another option is to practice by answering questions on this forum - in essence, solving a lot of small projects while improving your skills.
Once you are more confident in your skills, there are websites that specialize in connecting project requests to programmers. Seek them out and then apply your skills. In the internet world, most companies with data problems will not care who creates the solution or how old they are, only that a correct solution is provided.
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NAME
boggle - play the game of boggle
SYNOPSIS
/usr/games/boggle [ + ] [ ++ ]
DESCRIPTION
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ments of 4 letters each, (e.g. "boggle appl epie moth erhd") the program forms the obvious Boggle grid and lists all the words from
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words which no other player has found.
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'break'. While entering words, your erase character is only effective within the current word and your line kill character is ignored.
Advanced players may wish to invoke the program with 1 or 2 +'s as the first argument. The first + removes the restriction that positions
can only be used once in each word. The second + causes a position to be considered adjacent to itself as well as its (up to) 8 neighbors.
4th Berkeley Distribution May 20, 1985 BOGGLE(6)