Urza9814 Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 Aight, I know a bit of console C++ (by a bit, I mean I read the cplusplus.com tutorial, but dont' remember most of it, so I have to look it up)...usually I program with Dev-C++ on windoze, but every time I write a massive program (it never fails) either a few days after I start or a few days after I finish, windoze crashes and I have to reinstall and I lose it...and usually if I just started I don't feel like doing it all over again. Anyways, I've decided to try on Linux, but I need some ideas of what to program. I can't do graphics yet...I'll look into that this summer...but I am willing to spend a long time on this. Here's the kinda stuff I've done before: a 40-some page 4x4 tic-tac-toe prog in NQC (not quite C, programming lang for Lego Mindstorms)...this took weeks a long RPG game in C++ which I never did finish...it was messed up and I couldn't figure out why...I spent several months on that many many translator type programs in my early C++ days...convert text to binary or hex or octal or 1337 and back (except 1337)...spent a month or two on all those and my most recent: I started a prog much like XTux (I didn't know of that at the time) where you have to get into M$ and destroy their new project...Windoze crashed after I spent about 5 hours on that, mostly fine-tuning my attack task, and I didn't feel like starting over. any ideas? [moved from Offtopic by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnnyv Posted May 31, 2004 Report Share Posted May 31, 2004 One idea. Backups! As in backup your work, it makes losing it harder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 Aight, I know a bit of console C++ (by a bit, I mean I read the cplusplus.com tutorial, but dont' remember most of it, so I have to look it up)...usually I program with Dev-C++ on windoze, but every time I write a massive program (it never fails) either a few days after I start or a few days after I finish, windoze crashes and I have to reinstall and I lose it...and usually if I just started I don't feel like doing it all over again. Anyways, I've decided to try on Linux, but I need some ideas of what to program. I can't do graphics yet...I'll look into that this summer...but I am willing to spend a long time on this.Here's the kinda stuff I've done before: a 40-some page 4x4 tic-tac-toe prog in NQC (not quite C, programming lang for Lego Mindstorms)...this took weeks a long RPG game in C++ which I never did finish...it was messed up and I couldn't figure out why...I spent several months on that many many translator type programs in my early C++ days...convert text to binary or hex or octal or 1337 and back (except 1337)...spent a month or two on all those and my most recent: I started a prog much like XTux (I didn't know of that at the time) where you have to get into M$ and destroy their new project...Windoze crashed after I spent about 5 hours on that, mostly fine-tuning my attack task, and I didn't feel like starting over. any ideas? [moved from Offtopic by spinynorman] You have lego mindstorms? Did you make a tic tac toe robot????? I hail thy! Why dont you grab yourself a CD burner, they are damn cheap now, or sign up for a tripod.com or geocitis and you can back it up to there -- its worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted June 1, 2004 Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 any ideas? Any ideas about what exactly? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urza9814 Posted June 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 1, 2004 (edited) [qoute]any ideas about what exactly? any ideas about what I can program...anything that happens to pop into your head I would do that backup thing...as that would be awesome...but: a ) I don't know how to program variable filenames b ) I've never been able to get it to copy things...I've tried many times... You have lego mindstorms? Did you make a tic tac toe robot????? I don't think I ever DLed it...and it wasn't really a tic-tac-toe bot...what it did was you'd hit the buttons on 2 homebrew sensors (4 touch on one port) and then it would display it's move on the screen...That was one of the about 200 programs I made but never DLed...it's funny...I'd either program and not build the bot, or build the bot and not program...or sometimes do both but never connect the two...then I started programming more, building less...then I decided to try programming it in C++...couldn't find a tutorial for programming it using C++, so I just learned normal C++ :P Edited June 1, 2004 by Urza9814 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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