TextWindow Challenge
Create some ASCII art, either from an image or not.
Graphics Challenge
Write a program to draw the phases of the moon for this month.
Game Challenge
Write a program to play round pong.
This is just the paddle pong game played inside a circle, with bats that rotate around the perimeter, rather than up and down, for example http://www.retroflashgames.com/retro-games-online/round-pong.
Interface Challenge
Write a graphical interface to calculate and convert between units.
As an example convert jogging pace, speed and time for selected distances
- Pace may be in min/km or min/mile
- Speed may be km/hour or mile/hour
- Distance may be km or mile, with standard distances 1km, 1mlie, 5km, 10km, 10mile, half marathon, marathon
- Time will be in hours, minutes and seconds
The user may enter any one of pace, speed or time for distance.
The pace, speed and time are then calculated for all distances.
The user can also change between metric and imperial units.
Calculating the conversions is part of the challenge, but the biggest part is designing a clear, intuative and easy-to-use interface, maybe with some graphics to make it fun to use.
Community Suggestion
By Jibba Jabba
Write an animation that shows how the Stack object works.
By Nonki
Draw a graph for y = arctan x.
Or for other functions in Small Basic.
By Coding Cat
Build Your Own Tetris.
My challenge to the community is to build your own take on the classic game Tetris.
Not so much rebuilding the original, but rather taking the basic idea of falling blocks on a grid and make something new that is all your own.
To get things started, and to help out the newbies I worked up a basic version that anyone can start from: Import Code for ProtoTetris: NHH842