I have something of a programming background; I work as a software developer making C# web apps, though the vast majority of my duties at work involve databases, so I'd say I'm more a DBA than developer.
Anyways, I took a 100-level C++ class at a community college this semester, as I've never had any true object oriented programming training - everything I know I've mostly picked up on the job, in this forum, or from interesting pages I get linked to by friends.
My background has made most of the class pretty easy for me - I still make a syntax mistake here and there, but for the most part I haven't struggled with anything.
A decent chunk of our grade stems from a final project due at the end of the semester. We have to turn in a project proposal by the end of the week.
The example projects suggested by the teacher for the most part bore me, and seem really unimaginative. I'm looking for something that will be a little challenging (as opposed to something I should crap out in my sleep for an easy A), but not so difficult that I shoot myself in the foot grade-wise when creating it.
So, I'm looking for ideas.
I'd like to make either a simple game, or a program that would be actually useful in some way.
Any suggestions? Links to useful resources?
Anyways, I took a 100-level C++ class at a community college this semester, as I've never had any true object oriented programming training - everything I know I've mostly picked up on the job, in this forum, or from interesting pages I get linked to by friends.
My background has made most of the class pretty easy for me - I still make a syntax mistake here and there, but for the most part I haven't struggled with anything.
A decent chunk of our grade stems from a final project due at the end of the semester. We have to turn in a project proposal by the end of the week.
The example projects suggested by the teacher for the most part bore me, and seem really unimaginative. I'm looking for something that will be a little challenging (as opposed to something I should crap out in my sleep for an easy A), but not so difficult that I shoot myself in the foot grade-wise when creating it.
So, I'm looking for ideas.
I'd like to make either a simple game, or a program that would be actually useful in some way.
Any suggestions? Links to useful resources?