implementing dynamic memory allocation for an array of pointers to structs in c with a horrible teacher and no book. -30hours which really sucked compared to everything else up to that point that took a max of 3 hours. Good part is I learned all that I will hopefully ever need to know about the subject. It also made me appreciate java to a new extent.

I actually can't wait to take my data structures class. So much fun.

Klockan3

Sweden2866 Posts

June 08 2009 10:30 GMT

#23

The first college assignment I got was this and was probably the hardest too if you compare it with how much we knew:
F(N) is the N'th term in the fibonacci sequence: F(n+2)=F(n+1)+F(n), F(0)=0, F(1)=1.
Prove that GCD(F(N),F(M))=F(GCD(N,M))
GCD(N,M)= greatest common divisor of N and M.
(We had just highschool level maths knowledge by then, took me days to prove)

HeadBangaa

United States6512 Posts

June 08 2009 13:07 GMT

#24

1) Building an interpreter for the XQuery programming language using Java. Just a sheer amount of work: tens of thousands of lines of code over an 8 week period of time. My partner and I easily spent over 150 hours each on the project.

2) Building a compiler for a significant subset of the C programming language using Java, compiling down to SPARC assembly. Similar time commitment as the XQuery interpreter.

3) A basic MMORPG/chat client, accessible as a web service. I was the only person on the team who knew Java Swing and JMS. Another guy on the team wrote all the SQL/JDBC stuff. The other 4 team members were circle jerking the entire quarter; they did nothing. I spent all of my time coding, pulled 8 all-nighters, and developed RSI in my right hand, forcing me to permanently become a left-handed mouse user. This project helped destroy my relationship at the time, for the above reasons (got dumped at the end of the quarter, sweet!).

The most difficult part about Computer Science projects, was that they were designed to be large enough for teams of 2-8. So you couldn't just bust it yourself or you would die (see #3 above). If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn't.

HeadBangaa

United States6512 Posts

June 08 2009 13:20 GMT

#25

On June 08 2009 12:28 Cambium wrote:
Design an iPhone application to parse input data and play segments of a video. This was a bitch since no one knew how to code with Objective-C.
Maybe 30 Hours.

Have you (or anybody else) written any other iPhone apps?

I was thinking of learning Objective-C because I have some ideas for that little bugger. =]

ninjafetus

United States231 Posts

June 08 2009 13:53 GMT

#26

On June 08 2009 15:04 evanthebouncy! wrote:

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but isn't pricinpia or w/e it's called disproved by that godel dude? xD

Not 'disproved' but shown to be necessarily incomplete.

The hardest thing I've ever done is my master's thesis. And I'm still not done yet -_-;

AcrossFiveJulys

United States3612 Posts

June 08 2009 20:40 GMT

#27

On June 08 2009 22:07 HeadBangaa wrote:
This project helped destroy my relationship at the time, for the above reasons (got dumped at the end of the quarter, sweet!).

Haha I feel you man, same thing happened to me when I was doing the multithreaded ftp client I talked about in the OP, while creating a compiler from scratch, while doing the steiner tree project I talked about in the OP. It was like 90 hours a week in the lab, my gf at the time was so pissed. A friend of mine pulled all nighters that quarter and ended up getting some kind of terrible skin virus. At the end of the quarter when I had finished all my finals, I felt like I was leaving prison. So weird... I was like WTF I HAVE FREE TIME?!? and I couldn't function outdoors for a couple days =) It was miserable but I learned so much, and ended up getting a 4.0 that quarter so I guess it was worth it for me.

Hypnosis

United States2061 Posts

June 08 2009 21:17 GMT

#28

Learning 20 chapters of physics without going to the class because of the terrible teacher. I got a C --;. SEVEN HUNDRED PAGES??WTF