Re: Small program ideas

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Date	2013-02-26 13:21 +0000
Subject	Re: Small program ideas
From	"Vytas D." <vytasd2013@gmail.com>
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Hello,

Some more ideas:

1. Implement sin(), cos(), tan() etc. The accuracy could be supplied as a
parameter to the program. The correctness can be checked very easily with
implemented versions.

2. Read a string/file and look for palindromes (the group of words that can
read from both ends: A toyota, Madam in Eden, I'm Adam...)

3. Read a string/file and draw that string on the screen in a whirlpool
way. Counter-clockwise sample of the string: "abigsnake":
sgi
nab
ake

4. Print first n Fibonacci numbers.

5. Calculate Pi value for the specified accuracy. From wiki: "...
irrational number, including π, can be represented by an infinite series of
nested fractions...". So it won't be very complicated to implement.

6. Implement dos2unix/unix2dos

7. Calculator, that gets a string, put data into a tree and after
calculates the value.

Vytas D.

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:

> On 02/25/2013 10:48 PM, eli m wrote:
>
>> On Friday, February 15, 2013 7:22:41 PM UTC-8, eli m wrote:
>>
>>> Any small program ideas? I would prefer to stick to command line ones.
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>
>> Thank you guys for the suggestions. Any more?
>>
>>
> There are all kinds of things you could do.  First, consider something
> that might be useful.
>
> 1) checksum all the files in a directory tree, using various checksum
> algorithms.
>
> 2) Convert one kind of file to another.
>
> 3) Calculate time between two dates
>
> 4) Write some part of a backup system.  For example, copy files from a
> directory tree into a specified directory, stopping when the size totals
> N.N gig, and keeping track of which files have been so processed, so that
> after burning that directory to DVD, you can repeat the process. As a
> bonus, add a utility & datafile to the top of that directory, so that the
> DVD can be self-checking.
>
> Then try something interesting:
>
> 1) find the nth prime, for example the 1000th prime
>
> 2) Find all perfect numbers under a trillion
>
> 3) solve the puzzles on http://projecteuler.net
>
> 4) Build a spell checker, using a combination of a standard
> dictionary-list and custom entries.  Bonus question - Make it smart enough
> to only spell-check comments and literal strings, when applied to files
> with an extension of .py
>
>
> --
> DaveA
> --
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>

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Small program ideas eli m <techgeek201@gmail.com> - 2013-02-15 19:22 -0800
  Re: Small program ideas Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-02-15 22:52 -0500
    Re: Small program ideas eli m <techgeek201@gmail.com> - 2013-02-15 19:57 -0800
      Re: Small program ideas Mitya Sirenef <msirenef@lightbird.net> - 2013-02-15 23:19 -0500
      Re: Small program ideas Mark R Rivet <markrrivet@aol.com> - 2013-02-16 12:42 -0500
    Re: Small program ideas eli m <techgeek201@gmail.com> - 2013-02-15 19:57 -0800
    Re: Small program ideas Mark R Rivet <markrrivet@aol.com> - 2013-02-16 12:40 -0500
  Re: Small program ideas eli m <techgeek201@gmail.com> - 2013-02-25 19:48 -0800
    Re: Small program ideas Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-26 01:15 -0500
      Re: Small program ideas eli m <techgeek201@gmail.com> - 2013-02-26 14:47 -0800
        Re: Small program ideas Joshua Landau <joshua.landau.ws@gmail.com> - 2013-02-27 00:22 +0000
          Re: Small program ideas eli m <techgeek201@gmail.com> - 2013-02-26 16:47 -0800
          Re: Small program ideas eli m <techgeek201@gmail.com> - 2013-02-26 16:47 -0800
        Re: Small program ideas Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2013-02-26 22:27 -0500
        Re: Small program ideas Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-02-27 17:18 +1100
      Re: Small program ideas eli m <techgeek201@gmail.com> - 2013-02-26 14:47 -0800
    Re: Small program ideas "Vytas D." <vytasd2013@gmail.com> - 2013-02-26 13:21 +0000
      Re: Small program ideas Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-02-26 14:32 +0000
    Re: Small program ideas Matej Cepl <mcepl@redhat.com> - 2013-02-26 14:21 +0100
  Re: Small program ideas eli m <techgeek201@gmail.com> - 2013-03-18 16:51 -0700
    Re: Small program ideas Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-03-19 00:56 +0000
  Re: Small program ideas PMT <d12123176@mydit.ie> - 2013-03-28 11:46 -0700
    Re: Small program ideas Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu> - 2013-03-29 13:43 +0000

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