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Short Coding Projects?

Posted by Cliff on 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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  1. err, a minor point... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    A browser for OS X doesn't take two hours... five minutes, max. And that's because I hardly ever use Cocoa and I have to go look up stuff.

    Really, I'm serious.