Exercises thread.

[Engnome]

Ok as a programmer Im pretty far from actually doing something useful like adding new features in Mplayer or anything seriuos. But I like coding so what should i do? Therefore I created this thread (for me and others) to look into if they want suggestions for what exercise you can do.

I'll start with a small program I have made in every language i have tried and that I think is good for learning basic stuff.


Level: Beginner
Best language for the task: Perl Php Python or any other do what I mean language.

Make a program/game that thinks of a number between 1-200 and makes the user guess on what number the program is thinking on.

[lkagan]

Go to sourceforge.net and look into an existing project that you think looks cool. Download the source and update it little by little. You'll gain more knowledge by looking at other, more experianced programmer's code than trying to start your own project. I know, I've been there.

Good Luck and welcome aboard.

Larry

[Engnome]

Go to sourceforge.net and look into an existing project that you think looks cool. Download the source and update it little by little. You'll gain more knowledge by looking at other, more experianced programmer's code than trying to start your own project. I know, I've been there.

Good Luck and welcome aboard.

Larry

No doubt I'll do that in the future but right now I'm mostly confident in perl and want to improve in it and learn good habits/good programming style. I have no problem looking at code to learn but its not that likely I'll really will be able to improve it.

Also its fun writing a program from scratch and a hard task is like solving a puzle. I've been thinking about making a simple GTK2 game but cant figure out what to do (anyone knows how to bind a key to a subroutine in perl?)

c'mon post puzzles for ppl to solve.

[UbuWu]

Here you can find a lot of challenges for beginners:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread32007.html

[Engnome]

Here you can find a lot of challenges for beginners:
http://www.daniweb.com/techtalkforums/thread32007.html

Thx for the link. Someone there posted card images, a card game/solitaire will be perfect for me I think.