Today I finished up the rest of the curriculum for the rest of the year in my visual basic class

What was the funnest thing that you've coded in visual basic? I'm looking for something to spend my time on while I try and get an early out of this class.

Yeah those are two things I never thought I would head together.

chat bot for battle.net 1.0 like back in '08

This is actually a really good idea, thanks!



Yea the class has been very boring and that's why I'm looking for something fun.

I made a space invaders typing game for a school project in VB, and another in C# just for fun.
VB version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEGyh5gyPY0
C# version - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zP7OXSnMIE

I also made a proxy switcher, with an embedded web browser. It loads up a list of proxy addresses from a text file, then you just click on the proxy you want from the list and can search the web from that proxy.

Another fun project was a sleep / shut down timer. I made it when I couldn't find any good ones on the web and needed something to automatically shut down my computer while I watch movies on it in bed.

i am biases to socket based things because they are fun as hell

could try to make a client server chat server, where the server spawns multiple sockets one for each client.

I've already made things like your typing game, and sleep/shut down timer

Not sure if I'd be interested in the proxy thing, seems like it would be too simple, thanks for the ideas though



Yea I've made one with python before, before I really knew anything about python, it was annoying as hell.

I was thinking though about making a chat bot that:

uses ftp connects to my server

reads from text file every 5 seconds (chat log)

can login using another text file on the server (no encryption cus lazy)
which I might just use mysql for that

reads from third text file every 5 seconds for those currently logged on

would need a bit more for this though to really make it work

e/ god this class is boring, today I spent 2 hours coding different math equations, the same that I would spend hours remembering in hs

This post was edited by 0n35 on Feb 28 2013 08:09pm