Program ideas

[poonninja]

hello everyone, i have been programming for about a year and i have run out of ideas. i have googled "programming ideas" and have done most of the programs there. i'm looking for something that is challenging but not to hard. i just program in my spare time so i'm not hard core.

thanks for your help!

[thomas430]

Small text-based adventure games can be great fun. You know the ones where there's a map of rooms, and the user types things like:

look left
look down
move right
move forward
pickup ancient scroll

Because it can be a small little project you can get away with hard coding most stuff, and you can invent a really fun puzzle. Mine had temples and time travelling snails :-P

[darkestfright]

obligatory link:
http://cplusplus.com/forum/articles/28558/

[ne555]

So you want programming challenges?
http://www.programming-challenges.com/
http://projecteuler.net/
http://www.spoj.pl/
http://www.codechef.com/

There are small programs that do one thing right. Have fun