The "I don't know what to program so you will tell me what to program" Thread.

[Phreebird]

Make a audio-surf clone, only its a side scroller and you use the spectrogram as a level. [IMG]http://puu.sh/15uGH[/IMG]

[SiPlus]

[QUOTE=Jookia;37680507]Please don't do that in C.[/QUOTE]
No, C with CURL is great for it.

[Se1f_Distruct]

Remote desktop software.

[Staneh]

I'm really out of ideas, I want to make a program or something, but I have no idea what, I do C# + XNA.
Any ideas appreciated.

[Darkwater]

[QUOTE=Staneh;37796488]I'm really out of ideas, I want to make a program or something, but I have no idea what, I do C# + XNA.
Any ideas appreciated.[/QUOTE]

Make something like [url=http://windirstat.info/]WinDirStat[/url] (disk usage visualizer) Maybe a gane with this?

[Dysgalt]

[QUOTE=Darkwater124;37796810]Make something like [url=http://windirstat.info/]WinDirStat[/url] (disk usage visualizer) Maybe a gane with this?[/QUOTE]

Wasn't there a 2D game where the enemies were random files on your hard drive and whenever you killed one it permanently deleted the file?

[gparent]

[QUOTE=Dysgalt;37813710]Wasn't there a 2D game where the enemies were random files on your hard drive and whenever you killed one it permanently deleted the file?[/QUOTE]

I believe that was more of a virus than a game.

[Party Boy]

So I have to do a 3rd year project for college and I'm not sure what to do?
Any ideas?
I'm really not the best programmer so if you could provide some good references for it would be awesome.

[gparent]

[QUOTE=Over-Run;37819883]So I have to do a 3rd year project for college and I'm not sure what to do?
Any ideas?
I'm really not the best programmer so if you could provide some good references for it would be awesome.[/QUOTE]

What are the requirements of the project? Wouldn't that be useful information?

[Party Boy]

As far as I know you do anything, a game, a smartphone app, some application on the pc, lecturer said yesterday he would be down for something with a Raspberry Pi if we wanted to.

That's all I know. We haven't been given any details on it yet but a friend who did it last year said you basically choose something, get a lecturer to approve it and then you do it.

[ayegill]

Anyone got an idea for an OpenGL project? Not too complicated, i'm pretty new to it(I've done babby's first triangles/controllable camera and such, but nothing fancy).

[fpro]

[QUOTE=AyeGill;37934812]Anyone got an idea for an OpenGL project? Not too complicated, i'm pretty new to it(I've done babby's first triangles/controllable camera and such, but nothing fancy).[/QUOTE]

Pac-man, Asteroids, Space invaders, Pong. All relatively simple and fun projects.

[shodan]

[QUOTE=amcfaggot;36629021]
[b]Project 2[/b]

Utilizing GeoIP and any network library or native OS network functions, create an application which displays the estimated location of the addresses your system makes connections to in real-time.
[/QUOTE]

Gonna [del]do[/del] try this with AJAX(PHP+Jquery)

[Ashleigh]

HTTP web servers are always fun to make.

[Goz3rr]

[QUOTE=amcfaggot;36629021]
[b]Project 2[/b]

Utilizing GeoIP and any network library or native OS network functions, create an application which displays the estimated location of the addresses your system makes connections to in real-time.
[/QUOTE]

I might try this, and make it an actual map with lines etc but in a rainmeter widget, because who wouldn't want to look awesome with random traces on your desktop!

[Bladezor]

[QUOTE=Phreebird;37681638]Make a audio-surf clone, only its a side scroller and you use the spectrogram as a level. [IMG]http://puu.sh/15uGH[/IMG][/QUOTE]

How would this work when the entire spectrum is used? :P

[Phreebird]

[QUOTE=Bladezor;38005872]How would this work when the entire spectrum is used? :P[/QUOTE]
That's where the fun begins. Most songs don't have a pretty spectrogram so I would imagine you would have to clean it up a bit to make a playable level.

[Pangogie]

Novice Program Idea:
Create a program that takes a decimal number and converts it into a simplified fraction.
If you need something a little more advanced, have it recognize repeating decimals.

This is actually something I just did a couple days ago to get into C#.

[duno]

collatz conjecture:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture[/url]
(this one is simple)

[Mr.Heal]

[QUOTE=duno;38038272]collatz conjecture:
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collatz_conjecture[/url]
(this one is simple)[/QUOTE]

Cross post with WAYWO, thanks duno. Quite simple, but its fun to mess around with and great for some recursion!

[QUOTE][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/AkYRb.png[/IMG][/QUOTE]

I wonder though, the Wikipedia article said it has yet to be proven, seems pretty legit to me... someone who doesn't really like math :v:

Also, picture doesn't show it going all the way to one, just take my word for it?

[Pangogie]

[QUOTE=Mr.Heal;38043112]Cross post with WAYWO, thanks duno. Quite simple, but its fun to mess around with and great for some recursion! [/QUOTE]
Not sure why you would use recursion, but it is indeed fun to mess with to see how fast you can get it to calculate out to 1,000,000.

while(n < number)
{
	n++;
	n2 = n;

	while(n2 != 1)
	{
		if(n2 & 1)
			n2 = (n2 * 3) + 1;
		else
			n2 = n2 / 2;
	}
}

Edit: Might as well include the code I used since we're on the topic.

[duno]

My entry into the collatz club (in python):
[URL]https://github.com/jacobtorba/pyCollatz[/URL]

[Mr.Heal]

[QUOTE=Pangogie;38044243]Not sure why you would use recursion, but it is indeed fun to mess with to see how fast you can get it to calculate out to 1,000,000.

while(n < number)
{
	n++;
	n2 = n;

	while(n2 != 1)
	{
		if(n2 & 1)
			n2 = (n2 * 3) + 1;
		else
			n2 = n2 / 2;
	}
}

Edit: Might as well include the code I used since we're on the topic.[/QUOTE]

All the cool kids use recursion? Not sure, just what I thought.

int main(void){
	long int n;
	printf("Enter in a number you want to go to 1: ");
	scanf( "%ld", &n );

	colltaz(n);

	return 0;

}

int colltaz (long int n){
	if( n != 1 )
	{
		if ( fmod(n, 2.0) != 0 ){
			colltaz(3.0*n+1.0);
			printf("%ld\n", n);
		}
		else
		{
			colltaz(n/2.0);		
			printf("%ld\n", n);
		}
	}
	else
	{
		printf("%ld\n",n );
	}

	return 0;
}

Changed it as suggested in WAYWO, long int instead of double. Don't know why I used a double in the first place.

Duno yours gives me an error in python. Is it python 3?

[duno]

[QUOTE=Mr.Heal;38048384]

Changed it as suggested in WAYWO, long int instead of double. Don't know why I used a double in the first place.

Duno yours gives me an error in python. Is it python 3?[/QUOTE]
Yea, I probably should give more information next time.

[Arnold]

We came up with some game ideas on Flockdraw.

[IMG]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/85825490/art5.PNG[/IMG]

[AlienCat]

Make a snakes on a plane game where you can upgrade the plane and get better snakes.

[QUOTE=Mr.Heal;38048384]All the cool kids use recursion? Not sure, just what I thought.[/QUOTE]

No, recursion is harder to paralyze so you should always try to use loops if possible. So loops are cooler.

[>>]

make a not shitty android music player thats not ugly and allows you to select the folders that mp3's are collected from. also has a widget and a lock-screen version of that widget.

[editline]21st October 2012[/editline]

basically poweramp but free

[Elecbullet]

I could actually have a legitimate use for this. To my knowledge it has not been created, so:

Make a raster image vectorizer (suggestion: input PNG, output SVG) that makes an [I]exact[/I] copy of the image. Like, for a 64x64 sprite, it creates 4096 (=64x64) squares in the same positions as the pixels, which are the same colors as the pixels. [B]Hardmode:[/B] search for adjacent identical colors and merge them into one path to save storage space. [B]Babymode:[/B] Input BMP. I could still use this a lot.

Very limited use but I actually have a situation here where I could find it very useful.

[meppers]

make a virus for osx

[DoctorSalt]

[QUOTE=Elecbullet;38188980]I could actually have a legitimate use for this. To my knowledge it has not been created, so:

Make a raster image vectorizer (suggestion: input PNG, output SVG) that makes an [I]exact[/I] copy of the image. Like, for a 64x64 sprite, it creates 4096 (=64x64) squares in the same positions as the pixels, which are the same colors as the pixels. [B]Hardmode:[/B] search for adjacent identical colors and merge them into one path to save storage space.

Very limited use but I actually have a situation here where I could find it very useful.[/QUOTE]

Interesting. Since it's 1:1, this sounds like some form of compression. In the case where each pixel is unrelated to the squares around it (like those color grids people were posting), I'd imagine this would cause the file size to go up).