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What are your hobby programming projects? I need some inspiration. (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by eight_byte@feddit.de to c/programming

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I would like to know what your hoppy coding project are. It doesn’t really have to serve a purpose, but what are you coding on in your free time that just is fun to you and you enjoy working on?

As a background: I am an experienced programmer and do earn my money with it. In my free time I always enjoyed trying out new stuff related to technology, learn new things and improve my skills by doing so. But lately I recognise that I just have no clue what I should do or what a fun toy project I could work on. I really have no ideas. My head just feels completely empty whenever I open my IDE.

So please, tell me what you are coding on for fun.

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[–] waspentalive 1 points 1 year ago

I am interested in all things random or mathematical. I have written programs to simulate the decay of radioactive 'stuff', a program that simulates the CA Lottery by flipping a coin (someone said that your chances are about the same as flipping a coin 25 times in a row in a run of either heads or tails).

On the mathematical side, I have written a program to run the 3n+1 (Colatz) series and record process features, like counting evens and odds, the number of steps, and the maximum value found in the series. Perhaps the average of the values in the series would be interesting to calculate...

Combining mathematics with randomness - I have worked on the 100 prisoners idea, How many loops are created in this run, and how long is the longest one? If any loop contains more than 50 members then the prisoners lose and don't get to go home.

I have ideas for a traditional basic interpreter only lines are labeled not numbered.

I have a traditional Star Trek program that I have written many times improving slightly each time.