Looking for fun project....

Grimes

Hello everybody I am not in a programming career, but I do like to program for fun (Wouldn't it be awesome if I were in a career involving programming, so that I could actually enjoy my job?). Anyway as with most things in life you get better at it the more you do it, so I am looking for something to program to practice my c++ skills, something with OOP stuff. I was wondering if anybody out there knows any games or fun programming projects that I can do. I like programming games and stuff, like Tetris, does anybody else maybe have any other ideas. This is probably a weird post or something but that's just me...

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M dHatter

You could make an os if your bored. ;)

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Grimes

I am not THAT bored...

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M dHatter

Then make a tetris game using "hello" as the blocks.

"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein

Grimes

"hello" ?!?:confused: Like a "h" block and "e" block etc and if they spell hello they disappear, or are you just toying with me? I am very gullible, unfortunately.:~

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M dHatter

Yea, thats what i mean :cool:

"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein

Tom Lawton

How about a solver for the Eternity II[^] puzzle?

Grimes

Well good idea, but to make it even better, instead of "hello" the player should spell "Floccinaucinihilipilification" or "Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis" and as a reward the player sees a beautiful lady gradually taking her clothes off for every word correctly spelt. This might just be fun... :-D

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Grimes

Me and my friend actually spent a few weeks making a solver for that, before we came to the conclusion that it would take eternity to solve it. That was actually fun...

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M dHatter

How about, when it gets to the end, its a man with a sign that says "thats 30 mins of your life you will never get back."

"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein

Tom Lawton

My solver is in C++ (although not very OO) and is pretty fast (going by discussions on the Yahoo Eternity II forum) but after a month of solid computer time on a quad core XEON it still hadn't made a dent in a 10 by 10 'designed-hardest' Eternity II like puzzle. Needless to say I haven't even bothered trying to attack the real 16 by 16 puzzle.

Grimes

No, I have actually been fooled by exactly such a program, and I know the pain it can cause.

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Grimes

That's exactly what happened to us. My friend made a program to create puzzles, but for dimensions we wanted so we can test our solver. It managed to solve the puzzles relatively quickly up to 8x8 past that it took too much from my computer playing time, so I decided to find other means of wasting my life. We actually made a class for the blocks, with member variables and some methods and stuff, still not very OO but at least a little.

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M dHatter

Doesnt seem too hard, i just beat the online version in 7 mins 42 secs

"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones." Einstein

Tom Lawton

That's how they suck us in to buying the puzzle :) It gets exponentially more difficult as the puzzle size increases.

Rajesh R Subramanian

Grimes wrote:

I am not THAT bored...

So, you mean people who are releasing a new OS are doing it because they are THAT bored? :-D

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Grimes

YES! but atleast someone is paying them to endure the boredom...

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smcnulty2000

You can select a famous board game and do your own implementation. Sometimes these get popular. Or a weird variant on chess, like on a sphere. Or stealth chess where you can see your own pieces but not your opponent's. Then you get told when you try a move whether or not it was legal- and if it was legal you are stuck with the move but if not legal then it automatically rolls back. And you get told what piece you took if a piece is captured. The computer would automatically make illegal a move that would put you into check, it would test for stalemate, it would tell you if your move put the opponent in check but not where his king was. Lots of challenges in the interface, AI, and how the game works. Or you could do a game where each player is a squirrel trying to hop from yard to yard avoiding dogs and cats and accumulating nuts. And competing with other squirrels.

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rastaVnuce

Join an open source project. Some of them offer tutoring for beginners, which would be very helpful if you haven't worked on an open source project before. You'll get exactly what you need... A lot of practice, a chance to learn and the satisfaction of a job well done.

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Grimes

Thanks that sounds like a few good ideas! Maybe I should remake some of the old DOS games. Like 'Alley cat' (Almost like the squirrel game you suggested?). The chess game seems hard, and I am not very clued up on AI. AI scares me, to be honest I don't even like it if woman think, nevermind computers... ;P

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