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Short Coding Projects?
sapped asks: "Whenever somebody advocates a new programming language for you to try, they will usually suggest writing something in it that will take you an hour or two to code, so that you can get a feel for it. My problem is that I tend to go from extremely trivial ideas straight to stuff which will keep me busy, for at least a few days. I don't seem to have a handy in-between size project that I can test stuff in. The closest I came to this was writing a little ad-blocking proxy for my browser, a few years back. Any ideas on neat small non-trivial projects?"
There are lots of things you can write in two hours man!! :)
voice recognition software, compilers, parser generators , browsers , OS kernels etc etc.
Come on, be creative...
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My issue is not that I can't think of anything to write, but that I have writers block.
A random idea generator?
How about solving NP-problems in polynomial time? That should keep you busy for a few hours.
Write a porn collector that will crawl through unlinked collections on free porn sites. I'll bet you've done this by hand already (no pun intended). It will have to figure out the directories and filenames from evidence in the linked parts. You'll be using simple AI and network stuff, but if you also want to look only for redheads, you'll be doing some graphics work too.
If you use my idea, you should send me some redhead pix. Thank you.
The latest Slashdot meme.
Lisp is a multiparadigm language, not a pure functional one. Mature web servers written in lisp have existed for years, and are typically not written in a functional style. AllegroServe and Araneida are probably the big two (they have different focuses, think apache vs. zope). http://www.cliki.net/Web
Cool.
I did a self learning tic-tac-toe game once, using Martin Gardner's matchbox learning algorithm.
It learned so well that it started to cheat.
Stop the world; I need to get off.