macker Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 I have a small project for university, I have to write a program in two days and it has to be something that people would use in their day to day life. There is one restriction it has to be in C, now this isn’t an issue but, I could do with some ideas on what you think would be a useful day to day program. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateweb Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 a calculator that dose mutiple things like calories and steps and of corse hex and binary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
take it take Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Count how many days away from a future date to the current date. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
404 Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 predefined programs are opened, with predefined documents for those programs. That way you can click once, and have Word open with a document you use daily, Photoshop with an empty document which you use daily, etc... (Although it's probably overkill to do this in C) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Well, you'll probably end up writing something that you would normally script. How's this: Make a calendar app that warns you a week before something happens so you still have time to get a gift. What sucks is that I don't have a clue what either you or your teacher would consider 'something that people would use in their day to day life'. That description is decidedly vague. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 An operating system kernel. Any one who uses a computer on a daily basis has to use one of these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted November 15, 2006 Share Posted November 15, 2006 Well, you could of course make a basic shell. Probably a tad more feasable as a 2-day project than a complete kernel (though make no mistake about it, it can be done). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
take it take Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 An astrology program: Ask for their date of birth. Then it produces their fortune everytime. It'll say "You will be struck by lightning" everytime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateweb Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 An astrology program:Ask for their date of birth. Then it produces their fortune everytime. It'll say "You will be struck by lightning" everytime. Lol but if thay don't get struck thay will stop useing it , if thay do thay will blame the program :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Just make it respond "You will stay alive until tomorrow". Fat chance you'll get people coming in, claiming the output was wrong. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateweb Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Just make it respond "You will stay alive until tomorrow".Fat chance you'll get people coming in, claiming the output was wrong. Well what about their ghosts ? I realy realy don't like my equipment being hounted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cooper Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Well what about their ghosts? I realy realy don't like my equipment being haunted. And yet you run Windows, don't you? :roll: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kateweb Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 And yet you run Windows, don't you? :roll: yeah I know I Know , But i am slow teaching myself linux and hopeing to ween my sell off windows soon, just somethings are like a drug like some evilgames (the sims, sim earth) and macromedia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartain X Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 Count how many days away from a future date to the current date. i have seen this done in vb and the the entry above it in a year 12 software development class (AUS) just seems a bit of a waste and overkill Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macker Posted November 17, 2006 Author Share Posted November 17, 2006 Well, you'll probably end up writing something that you would normally script.How's this: Make a calendar app that warns you a week before something happens so you still have time to get a gift. What sucks is that I don't have a clue what either you or your teacher would consider 'something that people would use in their day to day life'. That description is decidedly vague. I decided to go with this idea, thanks everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
take it take Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 You could never go wrong with helloworld.exe. God knows how many times I needed helloworld.exe for my daily life. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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