remove absurdly hard projects, move sources to separate file

Author: Karan Goel

README.md

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 **Coin Flip Simulation** - Write some code that simulates flipping a single coin however many times the user decides. The code should record the outcomes and count the number of tails and heads.
 
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 Classic Algorithms
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 Graph
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 **Graph from links** - Create a program that will create a graph or network from a series of links.
 
 **Eulerian Path** - Create a program which will take as an input a graph and output either a Eulerian path or a Eulerian cycle, or state that it is not possible.  A Eulerian Path starts at one node and traverses every edge of a graph  through every node and finishes at another node.  A Eulerian cycle is a eulerian Path that starts and finishes at the same node.
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 **Dijkstra’s Algorithm** - Create a program that finds the shortest path through a graph using its edges.
 
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 Data Structures
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 **RSS Feed Creator** - Given a link to RSS/Atom Feed, get all posts and display them.
 
-**Post it Notes Program** - A program where you can add text reminders and post them. *Optional: You can have the program also add popup reminders.*
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 **Quote Tracker (market symbols etc)** - A program which can go out and check the current value of stocks for a list of symbols entered by the user. The user can set how often the stocks are checked. For CLI, show whether the stock has moved up or down. *Optional: If GUI, the program can show green up and red down arrows to show which direction the stock value has moved.*
 
 **Guestbook / Journal** - A simple application that allows people to add comments or write journal entries. It can allow comments or not and timestamps for all entries. Could also be made into a shout box. *Optional: Deploy it on Google App Engine or Heroku or any other PaaS (if possible, of course).*
 
-**Fortune Teller (Horoscope)** - A program that checks your horoscope on various astrology sites and puts them together for you each day.
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 **Vigenere / Vernam / Ceasar Ciphers** - Functions for encrypting and decrypting data messages. Then send them to a friend.
 
-**Random Gift Suggestions** - Enter various gifts for certain people when you think of them. When its time to give them a gift (xmas, birthday, anniversary) it will randomly pick one. *Optional: Suggest places you can get it (link to Amazon page?).*
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-**Markdown to HTML Converter** - Converts Markdown formatted text into HTML files. Implement basic tags like `p`, `strong`, `em` etc. *Optional: Implement all tags from [Markdown Syntax Docs](http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax).* 
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 **Regex Query Tool** - A tool that allows the user to enter a text string and then in a separate control enter a regex pattern. It will run the regular expression against the source text and return any matches or flag errors in the regular expression.
 
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 Networking
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 **Site Checker with Time Scheduling** - An application that attempts to connect to a website or server every so many minutes or a given time and check if it is up. If it is down, it will notify you by email or by posting a notice on screen.
 
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 Classes
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 **Family Tree Creator** - Create a class called Person which will have a name, when they were born and when (and if) they died. Allow the user to create these Person classes and put them into a family tree structure. Print out the tree to the screen.
 
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 Threading
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 **Create A Progress Bar for Downloads** - Create a progress bar for applications that can keep track of a download in progress. The progress bar will be on a separate thread and will communicate with the main thread using delegates.
 
 **Bulk Thumbnail Creator** - Picture processing can take a bit of time for some transformations. Especially if the image is large. Create an image program which can take hundreds of images and converts them to a specified size in the background thread while you do other things. For added complexity, have one thread handling re-sizing, have another bulk renaming of thumbnails etc.
 
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 Web
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 **Page Scraper** - Create an application which connects to a site and pulls out all links, or images, and saves them to a list. *Optional: Organize the indexed content and don’t allow duplicates. Have it put the results into an easily searchable index file.*
 
-**Web Browser with Tabs** - Create a small web browser that allows you to navigate the web and contains tabs which can be used to navigate to multiple web pages at once. For simplicity don’t worry about executing Javascript or other client side code.
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 **Online White Board** - Create an application which allows you to draw pictures, write notes and use various colors to flesh out ideas for projects. *Optional: Add feature to invite friends to collaborate on a white board online.*
 
 **Get Atomic Time from Internet Clock** - This program will get the true atomic time from an atomic time clock on the Internet. Use any one of the atomic clocks returned by a simple Google search.
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 **CAPTCHA Maker** - Ever see those images with letters a numbers when you signup for a service and then asks you to enter what you see? It keeps web bots from automatically signing up and spamming. Try creating one yourself for online forms.
 
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 Files
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 **Quiz Maker** - Make an application which takes various questions form a file, picked randomly, and puts together a quiz for students. Each quiz can be different and then reads a key to grade the quizzes.
 
-**File Explorer** - Create your own simple windows explorer program. Add feature(s) you always thought are missing from MS Windows Explorer or Mac Finder.
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 **Sort Excel/CSV File Utility** - Reads a file of records, sorts them, and then writes them back to the file. Allow the user to choose various sort style and sorting based on a particular field.
 
 **Create Zip File Maker** - The user enters various files from different directories and the program zips them up into a zip file. *Optional: Apply actual compression to the files. Start with Huffman Algorithm.*
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 **Code Snippet Manager** - Another utility program that allows coders to put in functions, classes or other tidbits to save for use later. Organized by the type of snippet or language the coder can quickly look up code. *Optional: For extra practice try adding syntax highlighting based on the language.*
 
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 Databases
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 **Budget Tracker** - Write an application that keeps track of a household’s budget. The user can add expenses, income, and recurring costs to find out how much they are saving or losing over a period of time. *Optional: Allow the user to specify a date range and see the net flow of money in and out of the house budget for that time period.*
 
-**Address Book** - Keep track of various contacts, their numbers, emails and little notes about them like a Rolodex in the database.
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 **TV Show Tracker** - Got a favorite show you don’t want to miss? Don’t have a PVR or want to be able to find the show to then PVR it later? Make an application which can search various online TV Guide sites, locate the shows/times/channels and add them to a database application. The database/website then can send you email reminders that a show is about to start and which channel it will be on.
 
 **Travel Planner System** - Make a system that allows users to put together their own little travel itinerary and keep track of the airline / hotel arrangements, points of interest, budget and schedule.
 
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 Graphics and Multimedia
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 **Turtle Graphics** - This is a common project where you create a floor of 20 x 20 squares. Using various commands you tell a turtle to draw a line on the floor. You have move forward, left or right, lift or drop pen etc. Do a search online for "Turtle Graphics" for more information. *Optional: Allow the program to read in the list of commands from a file.*
 
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 Security
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 **Caesar cipher** - Implement a Caesar cipher, both encoding and decoding. The key is an integer from 1 to 25. This cipher rotates the letters of the alphabet (A to Z). The encoding replaces each letter with the 1st to 25th next letter in the alphabet (wrapping Z to A). So key 2 encrypts "HI" to "JK", but key 20 encrypts "HI" to "BC". This simple "monoalphabetic substitution cipher" provides almost no security, because an attacker who has the encoded message can either use frequency analysis to guess the key, or just try all 25 keys.
 
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-Sources
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-* [Martyr2’s Mega Project List](http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/78802-martyr2s-mega-project-ideas-list/)
-* [Rosetta Code](http://rosettacode.org/)

sources.md

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+* [Martyr2’s Mega Project List](http://www.dreamincode.net/forums/topic/78802-martyr2s-mega-project-ideas-list/)
+* [Rosetta Code](http://rosettacode.org/)