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Hi Y'all and happy holidays!
Recently my company has "ordered" me to learn Visual Studio and WjLanguage, and in that occasion I've been given the task to make any app I want. Just to learn the language.
I've made a few already but only some crap apps that doesn't really have any valid functions except for me testing out the controls.
Because I'm not really "The creative" type. I'm in need for some ideas. And no, I'm not asking for any high profit (or any profit for that matter) "type" app. Just something to get me started on a real app which people might have use for, or wanting to see as an app.
If you have NO experience in developing apps, even better, as I need someone with a "cool" idea and not the time to do it themselves.
It can be Gaming related, school related or any other app. I'm just in sort of a mindblock on finding out what to start with. As the tutorials in WJlanguage (windev) is pretty much non existent.
I'd rather it'd be a Android application, but everything from Windows / Windows Phone / IOS or web based would be great.
My setup at the moment.
+ Show Spoiler [WinDev Mobile IDE - Wlanguage] +
+ Show Spoiler [WebDev IDE - Html / Java / php / Wlang…] +
+ Show Spoiler [Visual Studio IDE - Visual Basic / C#…] +
This might sound like I'm trying to get ideas to sell etc myself. Which is not the case at all. I just need some tips on where I should get started, and practice with debugging and design, and of course coding in the language.
Thus far the few tutorials I've done have been pretty simple coming from another language. (Clarion)
but I haven't really met any startling challenges I could work with.
And I thought it'd be a cool idea to have this blog as a starting point. Where I could update with how far I've gotten, input on what you'd liked changed and design input.
I hope this sounds like a cool idea to some of you nerds out there which also might want to eventually change coding language. Or if you'd just see me get furious when debugging.
I also thought I'd stream most part of this when I get anything to start working on, so you could give input while I try to figure this out!
Also, If there's an idea you know would make money but you don't have the experience to do it by yourself, and you don't want me(or anyone else reading this) to steal your idea. Give me a PM and we could talk about it.
Even tho this isn't the Idea of this little project, I'll never turn down a great idea!
So.. What would you liked developed?
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There is an incredibly fun game for android that I play, called GeoJump.
The developer hasn't made any improvements to the game and I think there are a lot of great things that can be added to the game.
The game is simple enough. You have a little orange ball that you try to bounce off platforms, the higher you get the more points you get.
There are some extras like accelerators, extra point squares, moving platorms, short platforms, and platofms that you can only hit once.
However, there are a ton of things that can be added to this game to give more of a challenge.
I think it would be fun to add:
- spiked platforms that you can not hit.
- Downward accelerators that would shoot you down that you have to avoid
- Puzzle walls (have to hit platforms in a certain order, to move higher)
- Moving half platforms.
- Bonus portals, that if you hit, you move into a game where you collect as many yellow squares as possible.
- Bonus portals, that if you hit, you move into a game where you are moving straight up, and have to avoid platforms.
- accelerators that make you go higher.
I feel like I have a ton of ideas and game modes.
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I always loved this approach to learning; get something practical and realistic out of it. I did this with experienced coder friends when I was learning PHP and MySQL, getting them to suggest things for me to make and design.
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That sounds pretty cool, but pretty advanced for me just trying to learn the language :/ Thanks for the tip tho, might consider doing something like this when I'm more experienced with the language 
On December 20 2012 22:56 Smancer wrote:
There is an incredibly fun game for android that I play, called GeoJump.
The developer hasn't made any improvements to the game and I think there are a lot of great things that can be added to the game.
The game is simple enough. You have a little orange ball that you try to bounce off platforms, the higher you get the more points you get.
There are some extras like accelerators, extra point squares, moving platorms, short platforms, and platofms that you can only hit once.
However, there are a ton of things that can be added to this game to give more of a challenge.
I think it would be fun to add:
- spiked platforms that you can not hit.
- Downward accelerators that would shoot you down that you have to avoid
- Puzzle walls (have to hit platforms in a certain order, to move higher)
- Moving half platforms.
- Bonus portals, that if you hit, you move into a game where you collect as many yellow squares as possible.
- Bonus portals, that if you hit, you move into a game where you are moving straight up, and have to avoid platforms.
- accelerators that make you go higher.
I feel like I have a ton of ideas and game modes.
I might have messed up the OP, but I can't make games (atleast I have no idea how) in the current language  Wish I could tho, And if I ever get any better with the SDK i might just do something like this
On December 20 2012 22:58 divito wrote:
I always loved this approach to learning; get something practical and realistic out of it. I did this with experienced coder friends when I was learning PHP and MySQL, getting them to suggest things for me to make and design.
Yeah I used this approach when I was using Clarion aswell. I started to read through some books to get the general idea, then just start building an application and rather when meeting problems looked for it in the books.
Reading 10000 pages might work for some but I'd rather get the experience by touch
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idk much about that language.
Something that might be useful and a nice task would be an online database for a vocabulary managed by a program, having updating, database login and information exchange, with a GUI.
I feel like that's pretty useful, and it's what I am planning on doing to get deeper into Java over christmas break, and the only real idea I have at the moment, as well ;d
edit: never even heard of clarion before now o,o what exactly is it used for and what OS does it work on?
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On December 20 2012 23:09 LML wrote:
idk much about that language.
Something that might be useful and a nice task would be an online database for a vocabulary managed by a program, having updating, database login and information exchange, with a GUI.
I feel like that's pretty useful, and it's what I am planning on doing to get deeper into Java over christmas break, and the only real idea I have at the moment, as well ;d
That doesn't sound as hard to do I guess, But if your going to make it. I probably shouldn't do it :-P I think it shouldn't be particular hard
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How about a tool that reads stuff from a website and can alert a user about something? For example twitch.tv channels. so instead of receiving emails when a channel you follow goes online you always see an icon in your taskbar showing how many of your favourite channels are online and by opening it (or even just right clicking the icon) you can see which channels are online and go to them.
Or if you really want to go deeper into it (and idk if this would be possible with the language you're learning) make a BroodWar window mode that allows borderless fullscreen as most games support it nowadays, now that's something I would actually really love and something that would help with alot things concerning BW.
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