Programming Itch

[Anonymously Famous]

Hi all,

Every once in a while I get an urge to write a computer program. The problem is, this time I don't know what I want to program. Any ideas? Nothing to graphics heavy, please.

[ThingerDudes]

while (true) {
cout << "ASDF";
}

some sort of maze solving thing or maybe something to do with checkers? I think those are good exercises to start out with...

[Anonymously Famous]

To start out with, sure. A maze solver would let me brush up on recursion, and checkers would, if I choose to not do a text-based game, let me play with some graphics libraries, and either way it would let me brush up on out-and-out logic. I did the maze thing back in college, though, and I did chess, too. Still, it was years ago, so it might be worth a shot.

[vraiment]

what about a minesweeper or a Crysis port in Linux

[Anonymously Famous]

Minesweeper might be fun. To do it in Linux, though, I would need to install Linux. I'm not sure I want to do that. I'll probably go with either Checkers or Minesweeper.

[ThingerDudes]

making an AI for checkers might be fun. and if you do minesweeper do wraparound mode. it's not too hard at all from a programming perspective, but I think it's cute.

[Anonymously Famous]

Wraparound mode? You mean the squares on the far right would count the squares on the far left?

[ThingerDudes]

yup. there was a way to enable it on the winXP version of minesweeper, and I thought it was cute. makes for a more challenging game.

[vraiment]

your definition of cute it's weird

[atomtengeralattjaro]

Hi all,

Every once in a while I get an urge to write a computer program. The problem is, this time I don't know what I want to program. Any ideas? Nothing to graphics heavy, please.

make a simple ASDF game, something to do with moving keyboard keys around or something
it's more of a creativity task than a programming one though

[Arkannine]

Do a solvable randomly generated maze game and then tell me how you did it

[hobobuster]

Hi all,

Every once in a while I get an urge to write a computer program. The problem is, this time I don't know what I want to program. Any ideas? Nothing to graphics heavy, please.

make a simple ASDF game, something to do with moving keyboard keys around or something
it's more of a creativity task than a programming one though

AHEM

It sounds to me like the ASDF RPG needs to be placed back into action... ahahahahahaha! Ah what wonderful procrastination days!

[atomtengeralattjaro]

heh maybe. That's a bigger project though, my suggestion was more of a means to ease one's so called programming itch

[vraiment]

I have a procrastination itch

[hobobuster]

Vraiment, I'd put that off till later if I were you.

[Foop]

Games in TI-Basic

[atomtengeralattjaro]

Hi, Foop!

[Foop]

Hello!

Btw... ti totally depends on what languages you know

[Anonymously Famous]

I know a little bit of everything. Today I fixed some corrupted text in a Chinese encoding, using Python, with a little help to recognize what the problem was.

I haven't found the time to do Checkers or Mine Sweeper. Maybe over the weekend...

[vraiment]

chinese encoding? Hell!!!!!!