Kill my boredom!

[thoughtpolice]

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For the past month and a half or somesuch, I have been meaning to write something, (preferably something that implements the new things I've learned,) that will be a reletively good size project. Throughout my entire programming, uh... 'career' I have never really taken on a good sized project, the thought behind this lies within these two facts:

I am a shitty programmer.

If I don't have anything to do or haven't thought it out completely, after getting done with what I have thought up I ditch it out of boredom and hardly ever continue due to brain blockage or whatever, 'programmers block.'

This is your chance, to hock up ideas, to take up my time during the summer, because I'm itchin' to try something, I was actually thinking of just chilling out for another few months and then maybe trying to write a rootkit or something else that is by nature totally badass, or generally something just cool that can take advantage of very naughty things such as DLL injection and API hooking.

Anybody who can recommend something as such will get a dollar.
... A golden one too.

Ready, go.

And yeah, I'm being serious here, I know a lot of you retard comedians who think they're the next Dennis Leary will want to walk in with a responce like "HAHAHAHA WRITE A MMORPG AND HAX MICROSOFT AHL4K5TJH07P - P;'[P AHO43HNR54RKJALSDKMNF5# ^%^%t%^tyhgdebhbca", so I give you this responce in advance:

You are not funny, nor is your wit cunning, your life is of miniscule importance, and you should consider getting a bullet implanted in your face sometime soon, in fact, go put it on your to-do list, kbye.

[Pilot-Doofy]

HAHAHAHA WRITE A MMORPG AND HAX MICROSOFT AHL4K5TJH07P - P;'[P AHO43HNR54RKJALSDKMNF5# ^%^%t%^tyhgdebhbca

[LordAba]

At 7/9/05 03:23 PM, Sinnernaut wrote: "HAHAHAHA WRITE A MMORPG AND HAX MICROSOFT AHL4K5TJH07P - P;'[P AHO43HNR54RKJALSDKMNF5# ^%^%t%^tyhgdebhbca"

Well, I don't know about Microsofrt, but why not write a MOO/MUD/MMORPG/whatever they are called now. Or any client-server type game.

Write the server in Java. ("omg java is slow and stoopid omgomg" STFU) This will teach you multi-threading, mutex, network programming, database programming, and protocol development.

Then write a graphical client in whatever language you want(VB woudl prolly be the easiest). It will teach you graphical manipulation, network programming in another language, etc.

Then work on your writing skills by publishing the protocal information so others can write their own clients.

[Pilot-Doofy]

Write something fun and malicious for all your school friends.

[thoughtpolice]

At 7/9/05 04:34 PM, Lord_Aba wrote: stuff

I was kind of not going for a game, plus I'm still learning Java, and if I were to write a client I'd rather write it in Delphi if I had to. And I suck at both of them, I dunno, but that does sound like a good project in a few months or such (maybe after I get my license for drivi-KILLINGZ.)

[Ravens-Grin]

Write a simple chat program. It can either be p2p or server based chat. Also, have features like "Log chat to file" and be able to possibly send files.

[Cinjection]

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[Lost-Battalion]

write a poker program. me and my friend did. just use 'class'.
1. recognize the suit of the card
2. recognize a straight, flush, pair, 2pair, 3 of a kind, etc..

we used C++ but If you accept the challenge you can use whatever u want

[thoughtpolice]

Again, I kind of wait to stay away from games.

I dunno, I MIGHT go and learn a little OpenGL or something, but I'd prefer something not of that variety right now. Something big that'll be fun.

I'm learning twords my own suggestion earlier, learn more and write a Rootkit. Or something like that. I'm so lazy, I don't even want to try out this DLL injection stuff I learned (this is probably due to the fact that I learned how to do it from a book (it's shown AS A DEBUGGING METHOD) and I don't want to feel like I'm totally ripping off the book.) :(

Whilst you're making suggestions, make me unlazy while you're at it or give me motivation, kthx.

[CronoMan]

Well, you could help me with one thing though, if you're so bored.
But that means learning alot of new stuff. I use a graphics library called gloom (no, you're not going to find it on the net of appearant reasons) so you'll need to learn the workings of that, and you have to have a good idea what an Octree is. I need a quick mind that can help me with the loading of 3-9 sections of a terrain seamlessly (1024x1024x32 ( a total of 1 048 576 polygons per section (!!)) which I don't know if can even be done :P the rebuilding of the octree takes too much time.

[liam]

How about trying to make a program that you can write things on, like notepad, and you can minimize it so it's not bugging you all the time. It would have to boast a sexy, sleek and modern design and you would need to be able to save to .txt, .html, and whatever else you want [plus you'll need to load]. Simple formatting tools would be nice too; choice of font and colour etc.

The programs practical uses are that you can copy and paste things there and just leave them for later, hidden away.. like a sly notepad.

A little drawing application would be cool too, if possible :P

Artists (thats me) rendition of what it may look like.

[White-Rhyno]

At 7/9/05 03:23 PM, Sinnernaut wrote: stuff

Mate, write you own simple scripting language. I recall you very recently posted about how you suck with C string manipulation, so this would be perfect.

Seriosuly, I wasn't too comfortable with string stuff, so I wrote a little scripting engine. My objective was to create the slowest error prone language ever, and learn strings.

Shit, some of the functions didn't even do anything, but if you didn't include them the fucker would shutdown you computer.

[TurnipClock]

At 7/9/05 04:35 PM, Pilot-Doofy wrote: Write something fun and malicious for all your school friends.

this ones always a classic:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
int main(void)
{
for (int x=0;x!=1;x)
{
system("net send * 'The USSR has reformed, prepare for an invasion'");
}
return 0;
}

[oc-fuzzy]

you can always make me a nice website for free, that'd be cool

[CronoMan]

At 7/14/05 06:53 AM, TurnipClock wrote:

At 7/9/05 04:35 PM, Pilot-Doofy wrote: Write something fun and malicious for all your school friends.

this ones always a classic:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <windows.h>
int main(void)
{
for (int x=0;x!=1;x)
{
system("net send * 'The USSR has reformed, prepare for an invasion'");
}
return 0;
}

use while(true) or for(;;) instead, that for loop will cause a syntax error ;)
and I think you can still use "net send 0.0.0.0 what he said^^" (network broadcast, using * will only send to computers in your domain and/or network branch)