Short Coding Projects?

Posted by Cliff on Saturday October 30, 2004 @05:58AM from the things-you-can-complete-in-a-coupla-hours dept.

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?"

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Re:a little easy but... by saden1 · 2004-10-30 06:48 · Score: 4, Informative

you can always got to Topcoder and check out some the problems they have over there. They have all sorts of coding problems with varying difficulties.

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Tetris by marcovje · 2004-10-31 22:51 · Score: 4, Informative

I usually write a tetris clone.

Basic operation is 400-1000 lines typically