A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

I.e. I am thinking of using this as a list to help me learn some languages I find interesting, currently Purescript/Haskell and ReasonML/Ocaml. I don't think you would model any of the solutions to the projects in the list by creating class-hierarchies (and Ocaml even is capable of creating class-hierarchies.)

Even in more mainstream languages, such as Golang or Javascript, you wouldn't go with classes/inheritance.

Re: A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

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Post by outime » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 8:06 AM UTC

Personally (but most likely majority of the people) motivation is so much higher when new knowledge can be applied in the short-term, and a pool of ideas like this comes very useful after e.g. reading the basics of a language.

Re: A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

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Post by cstuder » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 8:14 AM UTC

My personal favorite to implement in order to learn a new framework (mostly GUI oriented): A RPN calculator.

Learn about stacks, state, GUI... Small enough in scope, lots of additional features imaginable.

Re: A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

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Post by albertzeyer » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 8:15 AM UTC

Writing a game should be on the list as well. You touch many of the listed topics, and some more, have to combine them in an efficient way, and also it's fun. And your can write games of any complexity level.

Re: A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

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Post by hartror » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 8:17 AM UTC

albertzeyer wrote: post #7

Writing a game should be on the list as well. You touch many of the listed topics, and some more, have to combine them in an efficient way, and also it's fun. And your can write games of any complexity level.

A Roguelike.

Re: A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

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Post by Someone » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 8:18 AM UTC

Nice list, but ‘anyone’? The first on the list is ”Find PI to the Nth Digit - Enter a number and have the program generate PI up to that many decimal places. Keep a limit to how far the program will go”

Easily solvable if you set that limit low and cheat. Just put a string representation of pi in the program, and chop it off at the requested length:

    n = Input “num digits?”
    if n between 0 and 8 inclusive
      print left(“3.1415927”, n+1)
    else
      print “number out of supported range”

If you don’t cheat or if ”Keep a limit to how far the program will go” doesn’t mean what I read in it, I have my doubts anyone can write that program, even with support from Google.

Re: A list of practical projects that anyone can solve in any programming language

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Post by snorremd » Wed, Nov 21, 2018, 8:22 AM UTC

a-saleh wrote: post #4

Looks really good :-) I would just change Classes sot something more generic like Domain modeling ? I.e. I am thinking of using this as a list to help me learn some languages I find interesting, currently Purescript/Haskell and ReasonML/Ocaml. I don't think you would model any of the solutions to the projects in the list by creating class-hierarchies (and Ocaml even is capable of creating class-hierarchies.) Even in…

Agreed. The tagline talks about any programming language, and then the classes section goes on to talk aout classes, abstract classes, class hierarchies, etc. To me it seems like "any language" in that chapter at least would refer to what people traditionally call object oriented languages.

Lisps, some low level c-style languages (go and rust among the newer ones), and some ML languages with algebraic data types don't really have the same object orientation abstractions as Java, C#, and Python. Further more the class system in Javascript ES6 are a bit special.

It would be better to talk about domain modelling, suggest interesting domains to model, without actually specifying any particular way to do it.

Edit: I must add that the author have done a great job of collecting these suggestions for tasks though!