I Need Some Exercises

[Risifo]

Hey all, I need to practice my programming if I ever plan to get good, only problem is I can't think of any challenging exercises I could write. If you know any websites or you yourself want to see something written could you please tell me. Thanks

[proxima centaur]

www.sourceforge.net

[vaninagam]

hi,

As you asked, I have a problem.I want to control the access to my keyboard and mouse. So i dont want to use my keyboard.Instead i want to develop a GUI, from that i should be able to send data to applications. So for that we need to put our data into system message queues. so can u please do this(Putting data into system queues).

[Risifo]

Hrm, i'm not sure what your asking, you want me to create a GUI that makes it so you don't have to use your keyboard or mouse, how would you interact with the GUI than? Would you want to GUI to have like a keyboard display so you click the buttons on the GUI and it would write the letter you clicked, heh, I would love to work on it, but I don't know what you mean.

[JMS]

No Website... Books
Well depends upon your skill. If you are still trying to learn then getting a copy of Jamsa's 1001 programming tips is a great start. One can easily cover 100 or more of his tips in an hour and all his tips are themselves working programs which demonstrate techniques or api's.

If you are confident in your skills and just want a fun interesting project to work on I would check out The Turing Omnibus, or the Armchair Universe by Robert Dewdney. These book are chalk full of very interesting projects and background information to get you going. Some even give algorithms. Everything from facial morphing, to Facial recognition, to Fractal microscopes. Excellent reads.

Good luck..

[Risifo]

I have Jamsa's C/C++ Programmers Bible, and I just went on to look to see if I could find Jamsa's 1001 Programming Tips and I can't surprisingly, I know i've seen it before. I can find all his 1001 Dos Tips, 1001 Visual C++ Tips and 1001 VB Tips, but can't find that one. Hrm, maybe i'll just have to go to the bookstore and look for myself.