give me small, funny ideas to script

[choof]

I'm talking dumb stuff like an infinite loop that prints out "ayyy lmao" in different colors, or easy problems to solve

need to kill some time while I'm waiting for people to call me back

[rushyrulz]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

brute force a solution to the 8 queens puzzle.

[choof]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

you suck

[dAnceguy117]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

Write an infinite loop that spits out a character in different spots horizontally in whatever terminal thing you're using.

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That kind of thing. I spent my whole time in math class doing stupid stuff with these on a TI-83 when I was in middle school, long before I knew anything about programming. Brings me back.

[Wayward Vagabond]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

make an ascii poop generator

[hi19hi19]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

Make a program that turns an image into Twitch chat-style unicode art (not basic ASCII)
For example:


into

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[smartdude1212]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

Project Euler thanks bye.

[choof]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

i'm 2bad@math

[Kraezymann]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

Are you learning to code? Do you have much experience? Just curious.

I have always wanted to learn but I'm really bad at math and such too. I tried codeacademy but I haven't been on there in ages... agh. If I get enough time over a weekend I might go back and see what I can remember

[Xayphon]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

make a really trippy Mandelbrot set visualization !!

[Destroy2777]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

Write a program that continually outputs an animated train.



If you ever need more practice, one place I can point you to is HackerRank. It supports pretty much any language you might need, and has problems encompassing all varieties of problem and difficulty.

https://www.hackerrank.com/

[Zapmeister]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

here's a little thing i tried doing once but abandoned it:

ever get the frustration where you walk into a mcdonald's, desperately eager for an egg and sausage mcmuffin, only to find that you can't get one because it's like 7 in the evening and mcdonald's don't do 24 hour breakfasts? yeah, i do. so whenever this happens i slip into a mild existential crisis and 2 thoughts flow into my mind. (1) why the hell does mcdonald's only serve breakfast between 6am and 10:30am? (2) if only i could catch a plane right now to travel across the planet i'd be able to get a mcdonald's breakfast before 6am tomorrow. but... where?

here's a list of latitudes, longitudes and timezones for major world cities. basically i want a function where you input your location and current time, and you get the location you should travel in order to get a mcdonald's sausage and egg mcmuffin as quickly as possible.

you may assume that mcdonald's breakfast menu opens between 6am-10:30am every day, ignore daylight savings, and that typical flight speed of a plane is 900 km/h. also you can take the formula for the distance in km between two points given their latitude and longitude to be:

if points 1,2 have coordinates (lat1, long1), (lat2, long2) then:
distance = 6371.01 * (acos((cos(lat1) * cos(lat2) * cos(long1 - long2)) + (sin(lat1) * sin(lat2))))

partial credit goes to this site for implementing it but there is a major bug in it that it disregards the fact that you can arrive somewhere and wait for the mcdonald's to open before walking into it. i wanted to create a fixed version myself but i was too lazy.

[Fission]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

I have always wanted to learn but I'm really bad at math and such too.

you don't need much math at all to make simple programs. it only matters when you are trying to optimize algorithms or designing your own.

[choof]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

here's a little thing i tried doing once but abandoned it:

ever get the frustration where you walk into a mcdonald's, desperately eager for an egg and sausage mcmuffin, only to find that you can't get one because it's like 7 in the evening and mcdonald's don't do 24 hour breakfasts? yeah, i do. so whenever this happens i slip into a mild existential crisis and 2 thoughts flow into my mind. (1) why the hell does mcdonald's only serve breakfast between 6am and 10:30am? (2) if only i could catch a plane right now to travel across the planet i'd be able to get a mcdonald's breakfast before 6am tomorrow. but... where?

here's a list of latitudes, longitudes and timezones for major world cities. basically i want a function where you input your location and current time, and you get the location you should travel in order to get a mcdonald's sausage and egg mcmuffin as quickly as possible.

you may assume that mcdonald's breakfast menu opens between 6am-10:30am every day, ignore daylight savings, and that typical flight speed of a plane is 900 km/h. also you can take the formula for the distance in km between two points given their latitude and longitude to be:

if points 1,2 have coordinates (lat1, long1), (lat2, long2) then:
distance = 6371.01 * (acos((cos(lat1) * cos(lat2) * cos(long1 - long2)) + (sin(lat1) * sin(lat2))))

partial credit goes to this site for implementing it but there is a major bug in it that it disregards the fact that you can arrive somewhere and wait for the mcdonald's to open before walking into it. i wanted to create a fixed version myself but i was too lazy.

in order to prepare myself for this wonderful and glorious idea, I purchased a sausage mcgriddle for breakfast today and promptly shit my brains out when I arrived at work, causing me to miss a scheduled maintenance

idea rejected

[rushyrulz]

Re: give me small, funny ideas to script

do this one it's easy

https://projecteuler.net/problem=14