OpenEuphoria

Re: No one talking today ?

• Posted by DB James <larch at adelphia.net> Oct 23, 2005
• 624 views

Al Getz wrote:
> 
> ZZZZZzzzzzzzzZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz,
> 
> What, is everybody sleeping today or something?
> No forum activity, until now that is 
> 
> Wake up and let's hear about your great programs!
> 
> 
> Take care,
> Al
> 
> And, good luck with your Euphoria programming!
> 
> My bumper sticker: "I brake for LED's"
> 


Hi Al,

Does seem a bit quiet, as if the programming gods were disporting themselves in
idle revelry and divine dissipation instead of attending to business.

So, let's see...  Oh yes, I did have an idea that might be worth a mention: we
could use a standing list of ideas for programs for those times when a programmer
wants to tackle something (maybe just to take a break from his or her more
commonly-done stuff).  Anyone could add to the list, and possibly it would
contain not only descriptions of the recommended programs, but a guess as to the
level of difficulty.

Off-top-of-head examples:

- A holiday-specific graphics-oriented program (actually many of these would be
welcome).  Difficulty 2:4 (of a range of 1:10)

-- A generic tutorial program to which anyone could add a module.  Difficulty:
4-6

--Universal basic language translator - does near one-to-one translations of the
basic 2-3K words in any language. Difficulty: 5-7

--Clear and distinct demo of a successful non-trivial neural net showing the
process of learning.  Difficulty: 4:6

--Super-fast and easy-to-use encoding / encryption for various schemes. 
Difficulty 4:7.

--Database of program routines for easy insertion into a program. 
(Controversial?)  Difficulty: 5:7

--Basic games (tic-tac-toe, etc.) rendered into Euphoria code for fun, teaching
programming principles, and suggusting good development habits.  Difficulty 2:5

A related idea is gathering and optimizing pseudocode algorithms for people to
use in practicing programming skills.

--Quark