Give me a mildly easy challenge

[Nettly_]

Hey I am a programmer and I just need something to challenge my mind. Don't make it too big or hard please, not yet at least.

I am not looking for:

- Virus coding challanges
- Massive apps
- More than 5 programming languages at once

 

I am looking for:

- Something that takes 1 to 5 programming languages

- Something possibly over 200 lines is preferable

- Something that I can put in the Unlicensed without feeling bad

 

Code will be on my friends Gitea project (will be in bio later) if you want to see it. I just cant think of ideas just yet.

[NunoLava1998]

Code an entire operating system + a suite of apps using only 386-capable assembly and it only has to support the UEFI platform; with no libraries like GNU-EFI to help you

[Jimkirk363]

I think he said mildly easy.

[Nettly_]

Just now, NunoLava1998 said:

Code an entire operating system + a suite of apps using only 386-capable assembly and it only has to support the UEFI platform; with no libraries like GNU-EFI to help you

That is already a part time thing I am still planning out called Microsystem and it is in development but I am not good with assembly, so I am practicing other things with assembly to get there. Good idea but I am also working on a fuller version just taking a break on it

[Gegger]

print('Hello world') x 200

 

/s

[NunoLava1998]

Just now, SafyreLyons-5LT said:

That is already a part time thing I am still planning out called Microsystem and it is in development but I am not good with assembly, so I am practicing other things with assembly to get there. Good idea but I am also working on a fuller version just taking a break on it

It's a joke.

I program for EFI trying to make even a basic kernel and it's pretty hard.

Using only 386-capable assembly and no EFI libraries is an easy way to give people depression, or abandon those projects

[Nettly_]

1 minute ago, NunoLava1998 said:

It's a joke.

I program for EFI trying to make even a basic kernel and it's pretty hard.

Using only 386-capable assembly and no EFI libraries is an easy way to give people depression, or abandon those projects

I couldn't tell. When I joke like that I always put "/s" at the end and sometimes "\s" either one works tho

[TempestCatto]

Program me like one of your french codes

/s

[DevBlox]

Should be a challenge and way more than 200 lines, more info in thread. And if you pick a reasonable language for a project like this (C, C++, Rust or Go), I'd contribute. I found some Vulkan trace tools that will help a bunch in my pet project, but a general GPU monitor that wouldn't be a console and would be cross-manufacturer seems to evade me.

[Nettly_]

3 minutes ago, DevBlox said:

Should be a challenge and way more than 200 lines, more info in thread. And if you pick a reasonable language for a project like this (C, C++, Rust or Go), I'd contribute. I found some Vulkan trace tools that will help a bunch in my pet project, but a general GPU monitor that wouldn't be a console and would be cross-manufacturer seems to evade me.

I would if I had a computer with a GPU but I sadly dont. One day

[DevBlox]

6 minutes ago, SafyreLyons-5LT said:

I would if I had a computer with a GPU but I sadly dont. One day

Doesn't have to be a GPU to start out. Intel iGPU needs this as much as any other card. I'm working on a laptop with no dedicated card either so far. I'm planning to build a Ryzen PC in about 8 months give or take, good way to wait for a price drop, and I'll be away from home for that long anyway.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, SafyreLyons-5LT said:

I would if I had a computer with a GPU but I sadly dont. One day

Scroll through the thread. There's quite a few neat ideas.

[Nettly_]

2 minutes ago, fpo said:

Scroll through the thread. There's quite a few neat ideas.

I will then thank you

[CrashM]

If you are looking for something a bit more math based check out https://projecteuler.net some good challenges on there.

[mariushm]

If you're bored, I'd suggest checking out some open source projects and provide some patches to them.

 

For example, I'm personally interested in ebooks and data compression and I'm currently working on something similar to precomp : http://schnaader.info/precomp.php

 - basically the same way this tool uses for Zlib headers in binary data, I want to look for the MOBI LZ style or CDIC compression algorithms (both sort of weak compression schemes, because these MOBI files were meant to be opened on PDAs)  to unpack them and then re-create the ebooks bit exact. Same for other formats like FictionBook (xml with binary stuff like cover art as base64 encoded binary strings) or LIT (microsoft ebooks with another LS variant of compression)

 

 

You could look into Calibre and add EPUB 3 features and stuff that's missing, like like text to speech or other things to the eBook viewer, better conversion between formats (the command line convert tool is really hard to work with and the default parameters suck ... for example by default if you convert a MOBI to EPUB the converter will process images instead of leaving them untouched, and the converter adds stupid html classes to paragraphs and "calibre" signatures ... like every paragraph has < p  class = "calibre1" , "calibre2" etc etc> when it's not needed.

 

[Franck]

A mod manager for a game. You have many little details to work out.

Version management, backup, user profile, folder copy / paste in come case, setting file changes, Profile on the go, copy to usb or something, Profile sync once the web.

[megaderp19xx]

i dont know if it would be more then 200 lines but maybe a script that when a txt file if put into a folder it conferts it to a html file and also adds the tags so that it basically becomes a html page that only needs a href connection to the index file to work and then pasts it in a diffrent folder but i personally dont know how to do that.

so i cant help you with that but i think it would be a challenge

 

[mariushm]

$filename_in = 'file.txt';
$filename_out = 'file.html';

$text = file_get_contents($filename_in);

$ENTER = chr(0x0D).chr(0x0A);

$lines = explode($ENTER,$text);
foreach ($lines as $key => $value) {
 $lines[$key] = '<p>'.$value.'</p>';
}
$text = implode($ENTER,$lines);

$text = '<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><title></title></head><body>'.$text.'</body></html>';
file_put_contents($filename_out,$text);

 

[steelo]

On 9/7/2019 at 4:35 PM, SafyreLyons-5LT said:

Hey I am a programmer and I just need something to challenge my mind. Don't make it too big or hard please, not yet at least.

I am not looking for:

- Virus coding challanges
- Massive apps
- More than 5 programming languages at once

 

I am looking for:

- Something that takes 1 to 5 programming languages

- Something possibly over 200 lines is preferable

- Something that I can put in the Unlicensed without feeling bad

 

Code will be on my friends Gitea project (will be in bio later) if you want to see it. I just cant think of ideas just yet.

Code an emulator to run Win10 proper on a raspberry pi 3 and not take 10 minutes to load notepad. 

 

OR

 

code tecmo superbowl to show what it is REALLY like for an 'average' NFL team to play the modern day NE Patriots. That would be amusing.

 

 

[Dat Guy]

Still looking forward to someone who makes a machine to slap people over the internet.

 

(I have a concept for the software, I could probably write this myself - but I have no clue about building robots.)

[wasab]

Print smiley faces. 

If that is too easy, print sponge Bob or whoever your favorite cartoon character is to stdout. 

[Franck]

6 hours ago, Dat Guy said:

Still looking forward to someone who makes a machine to slap people over the internet.

 

(I have a concept for the software, I could probably write this myself - but I have no clue about building robots.)

I can suggest you the XArm 7 (https://www.ufactory.cc/#/en/xarm). Works great and also have a manual recording override. You simply make it slap by physically moving it by hand yourself and take the gcode it generated and add the invert movement to it then make a loop. Rubber chicken in the hand clip is optional.