any ideas for a C++ program?

[Bmxpunk86pl]

yea im a newbie to C++ and i think i know enough to handle a pretty descent program, i have already made like C to Fahrenheit conversion programs and easy stuff like that. What i want to do is write a good program and i need some ideas on to what it should be about. Im not looking for a program that calculates stuff, what i m lookin for if for a program that does something with the hardware, like erase of copy or install certain files, or whatever. Any ideas?

thanks

[XWRed1]

Maybe make an Mp3 ripper? That project might be more suitable for a scripting language though.

Maybe a web browser? Or how about a hard drive reformatter? Thats easy!

Btw: Is that really you in your avatar pic? I saw that clip on tv a while ago!

[Bmxpunk86pl]

but i need help, u know what to declare what, where to start. Maybe some example source code would help, i m not gonna copy but u know it would help me get an idea to where to start. I like the hard drive defragmenter. Please help me, i really want to learn the languge, i read a couple of guides on C++ and one book but i have no clue where to start to make a program like that. I would greaty appreciate it.

[XWRed1]

Well, it doesn't work so that you just "declare" stuff, and the program starts to magically do what you want it to do.

You might poke around on MSDN for Microsoft specific stuff, which you'd need to do a disk fragmenter. Honestly, disk defragmentation is probably too low level for a little goof off program, unless you're really ambitious. Not to mention hazardous.

If you want a bunch of straight source code, you can go look at stuff in Linux (and/or accompanying programs) or one of the BSDs, or something else. Won't carry straight over to Windows, but would sort of give you an idea of how things are done.

[Crash893]

a freind of mine is in programing

hes fist couple of assinements were to make a file zipper

and he also made a program to run mazes

[Bmxpunk86pl]

ok here is the deal. the stupid books on c++ all then teach u is like user interacting programs like calculators or finance programs that add and subtract stuff, well thats not what i really wanna learn, what i wanna learn is stuff that actually does something to your computer like rip mp3, defrag, add files, check files like a program that would check to make sure u have a mpeg4 codec for example. All they teach u is like how to declare stuff like int, char, so thats why i was asking what to declare where. What i need help white is where to start a program like that, i dont really care if its a windows or msdos program, please help:beer:

[XWRed1]

You have to do the small stuff before you can do the big stuff. Sounds like you still may need to get some of the small stuff out of the way.

You're gonna be declaring ints and chars in just about every program you make.

[Crash893]

make a better version of prime95

they have the code on there webpage i think.

i think there is a 500 dollar ( mabey200) i forget if you make any advacnes in the prime95 program

( make it go faster etc.) but it has to be done to the program not new cpu technology ( ie. new 10ghz chip comes out you cant say you doubled the speed of the program becuase of the chip)

ill see if i can find more.