Re: Programming as a hobby
- From: "The Elf" <inthaneelf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:28:02 -0700
hi Chris ,
smile, right up my alley, though it sounds like your better at it than I am.
lets see, some of the apps I have worked on and/or have in my stock pile of
"try to do's"
I have the basic workings on a game I hope to put on the market for both
blind and sighted players, have numerous sited games that I am hoping to
manhandle into accessibility. backgammon, reversey, I think I have like 23
sets of source code for games alone. I also have the startings on a multi
level character generator/manager for folks who play the pencil and paper
role playing games, like dungeons and dragons, I have a simple dice roller
for said games and am working on a more complex one, since my favorite
roller was made for windows 98, and will undoubtedly stop working when I
need to upgrade OS's again, and a name reverser for use in the same things
(type in a word, hit enter and its replaced with the same word spelled in
reverse, so vulgar becomes ragluv) and a little set of quick applications
I'm working on for the guy who runs the game, to assist with testing or
randomly generating things for a game, such as a random town, a monster
against the group tester, a combat tracker (for me mainly but others could
use it as well) and a Sci-Fi random World generator.
I also have a metric to us and us to metric and other measurements
converter, a quick made interval timer, a random number generator that
enjoyed a very brief liking with players of a particular online
adventure/conquest game called black nova traders, that you gave it the
number of sectors in the games universe, and it would give you a random
place to go, and I was getting ready to cause it to log all the rolls and
add notes when the game site closed due to lack of support.
oh almost forgot a JPEG photo viewer with the ability to encode the graphic
into a coded file and delete the original so one could have a private
collection of electronic images that nosy folks would have a problem
viewing, since they could only be unencrypted and viewed in the application
itself.
ok that about sums it up, smile, I have so many games due to my having once
worked for a blind game developer who is still around, and finding that I
loved designing the things, I probably have 20 to 30 more game designs
and/or scenarios on a disk around here somewhere! I also was a beta tester
for all in play in there early days, back when all they had was the poker
game.
basically, if I think I may be able to conquer it, I just work on anything I
don't have, and either can't afford a already made version of, or can't find
an accessible one of out there easily enough.
HTH
the elf
proprietor, The Grab Bag,
for blind computer users and programmers
http://grabbag.alacorncomputer.com
Owner: Alacorn Computer Enterprises
"own the might and majesty of a Alacorn!"
www.alacorncomputer.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Hallsworth" <christopherh40@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 6:37 AM
Subject: Programming as a hobby
Hello all,
Since I want to be a professional computer consultant as a job, I've now
decided to take programming as a hobby. I'd like your thoughts on what
programs you create during your spare time, and maybe you could give me
some
ideas on what I could do. I for now program in Visual C#.net, but am also
looking into the other .net languages and maybe Java.
All thoughts are very welcome.
Thanks.
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Chris Hallsworth
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