----------------------------------- Blade Wed May 07, 2003 12:17 pm Final Assignment...! ----------------------------------- I need ideas for my final assignment. I was thinking of a simple pong, but i did that and it won't include everything i need. I have no clue where to start, we have a bunch of... 'great' minds here so help me out dudes (make an appropriate one).. I was also thinking of improving my hangman and handing that in... but, i'm still open to suggestions.. the program must include - Datafiles - Arrays - String manipulation i know these things are totally simple... so gimmie somethin 'harder' to do ----------------------------------- DarkHelmet Wed May 07, 2003 12:20 pm ----------------------------------- if you want something that's not too tough, you could do yahtzee, or if you want a bit of a challenge, you could make monopoly. That's what i did. You should be able to get all three of those categories in there. ----------------------------------- Dan Wed May 07, 2003 12:21 pm ----------------------------------- make an rpg game. it can include everying that whode need to be in a fianl project and is fun to. no need to make it huge or even have relay good graficks. also some other good ideas are: paint progame pong with a lot of stuff (ie. good ai) tic-tac-toe with perfick ai card games (black jack, solaitater, ect) ----------------------------------- Blade Wed May 07, 2003 12:28 pm ----------------------------------- yeah... i was just talking to my teacher about it... i think i'm gonna do a graphing calculator.... gonna be hard though. ----------------------------------- Homer_simpson Wed May 07, 2003 3:46 pm ----------------------------------- graphing calculator LOL! it's soo easy i just made one 2 days ago to solve some of my math problems i'll send u the code if u want.... ----------------------------------- nate Wed May 07, 2003 4:04 pm Graphing Calculator ----------------------------------- Make it using GUI cause it looks a hell of alot betta ----------------------------------- Asok Wed May 07, 2003 4:31 pm ----------------------------------- homer, I know I can't technically stop you from sending your code to blade, however I reccomend you don't. The whole point of the final ISP is to tackle a challenge. I hope blade will try it on his own first before appealing to homer for help. but if not, doesn't affect me so who cares?! :lol: ----------------------------------- void Wed May 07, 2003 4:55 pm ----------------------------------- well said asok....by the way...graphic calculator?!?!?!?! who's your teacher and where the fvck is he from?!?!?....personaly too easy for a final assignment and i've only been doing turing for a little while now (3-4 months).....(i did do other programming tho **smiles sheepishly**)...do a a game...like paddle ball (brick) or summin....any game can have a file if you record high scores on it.....and if your teacher wants string manipulation....then make the user save his account with a name and pass and when they open the game....the users name and pass should be requested..or they can create a new account (you should allow deletion of accounts tho..).....i think that counts as string manipulation ----------------------------------- void Wed May 07, 2003 5:05 pm ----------------------------------- what does ilegal pic identifier mean??....im doing a "casino rama" imitation....and my card suits arent showing up because the thing keeps saying im using an illegal pic identifire.... ----------------------------------- Tony Wed May 07, 2003 5:06 pm ----------------------------------- :? so gimmie somethin 'harder' to do Blade wants a challange, not an easy way out. :D I think you can pick from any of the classic arcade games... tetris, pacman, that thing like pong but where you break briks... asteroyds (lol - ask Catalyst) and more 8) ----------------------------------- Asok Wed May 07, 2003 5:34 pm ----------------------------------- what does ilegal pic identifier mean??....im doing a "casino rama" imitation....and my card suits arent showing up because the thing keeps saying im using an illegal pic identifire.... ileagal pic identifier typically means it can't find the pics you want to use, double check the file extension, directory, and spelling (caps incluided) ----------------------------------- Martin Wed May 07, 2003 5:42 pm ----------------------------------- Here's a challenge to you: Make an rpg that is fun to play, and includes NO GRAPHICS whatsoever. I did it, and got 58/50 (no typo) ----------------------------------- Homer_simpson Wed May 07, 2003 6:00 pm ----------------------------------- that's impossible all RPG games that have no graphics SUCK!!!! I just dont see anyy point in playing a boring game that can just get numbers out of... =/ ----------------------------------- kythoon Wed May 07, 2003 6:23 pm ----------------------------------- make a 3rd person rpg game that will be hard and take some thinking ----------------------------------- void Wed May 07, 2003 6:23 pm ----------------------------------- thanx man....now...i got this problemo.....the attached file contains my attempt at the paddle ball game....you dont need to dl it to explain this to me coz im a fast learner....you kno the briks....i have the ball bouncing when it hits the brik...but i cant manage to figure out how to make the hit brik disappear....i attempted making the brick a picture that was repeated over the screen and then i was gonna make it go white once it was hit....but then i realized something....I DONT KNOW HOW TO DETECT WHICH BRICK WAS HIT!!!!....AND THUS NOT KNOWING MAKES IT IMPOSSIBLE TO ERASE THE RIGHT ONE.....maybe i'll just randomly delete a brick when a brick is hit and hope that i delete the right part of the screen.....:p .....yea any help will be appreciated ----------------------------------- Dan Wed May 07, 2003 6:46 pm ----------------------------------- here is a tutoral on dection: http://www.compsci.ca/bbs/viewtopic.php?t=75 i thinks thats what you whonted. ----------------------------------- Blade Wed May 07, 2003 7:46 pm ----------------------------------- lol thanks for all yer suggestions... the graphing calc sounds hard to me... but i think i'm just making it harder than what it really is (its a very bad habit that i cant seem to break) ----------------------------------- Tony Wed May 07, 2003 7:49 pm ----------------------------------- I use to set my goals too high... then I slide them down untill project becomes reasonable... unfortunatly I quit before I let my standarts slide that low :? Oh well, my compsci ISP is funny... I keep on changing the plans on weekly basis but now I actually started something and it partially works... programming in VB though, I'll post final product once compleat. ----------------------------------- Catalyst Wed May 07, 2003 9:12 pm ----------------------------------- what is it? ----------------------------------- Tony Wed May 07, 2003 10:43 pm ----------------------------------- well if anyone cares, my compsci teacher is lazy and makes grade 12s program useful apps that would benifit the school... with interviews, contracts and as much paperwork as programming :? long story short - I'm programming our "house system" database. Basically taking MS Access and writing VB functions and interface to make it easy and useful. What it basically does is just stores points that each student has in each of "events" that are going on in school... such as you get 20-25 points for being on a sport's team and 20-25 for being on a honor roll (80+% average)... I also get points for drawing comics for school's newspaper :D Its simple stuff really... now that I got my database designed the way I want it 8) There will also be a website showing quieries like top w/e or something... ----------------------------------- Catalyst Wed May 07, 2003 10:52 pm ----------------------------------- sounds like pointless busywork.... just my opinion tho.... you should give urself points for making the damn prog ----------------------------------- Tony Wed May 07, 2003 11:05 pm ----------------------------------- hah, ya... it is pointless.. thats why I wasted soo much time not doing it... figured admining compsci is way cooler then working on some project that was assigned by school... though I suppose I could leave some back doors opened to allow myself to remotely edit the database while noone is looking :twisted: