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Interesting question. In terms of programming coursework at university there was a GUI program called Dress Shop which, using extended user defined classes stored specific information about each item of clothing and used a mixture of both public and private variables. It required full Javadoc which was an absolute nightmare to put together. Another piece of coursework which was an absolute nightmare was a console program based around singly linked lists. To advanced programmers it probably won't sound very hard but I found it so difficult to understand the concept. I understand most of it now but not all of it.
As for personal work there is Longhaul. This is an IDE I'm currently creating which can be used to type, compile, execute and debug Java code. I started typing it in Java but I needed to type so much code I eventually switched to C# and am now using Windows Forms. It's as tough as the pieces of uni coursework that I mentioned because I'm learning complex new concepts on the fly and there are so many different sections to the program. The main editor window is also by far the biggest code file I've ever created, which is not necessarily a good thing!
As for personal work there is Longhaul. This is an IDE I'm currently creating which can be used to type, compile, execute and debug Java code. I started typing it in Java but I needed to type so much code I eventually switched to C# and am now using Windows Forms. It's as tough as the pieces of uni coursework that I mentioned because I'm learning complex new concepts on the fly and there are so many different sections to the program. The main editor window is also by far the biggest code file I've ever created, which is not necessarily a good thing!
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The hardest program I wrote was a compiler of C language ( not a full one, but it did have many features) ... and the only reason I did code that was that it was a compiler construction lab assignment ... LOL ...
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Hardest program I ever wrote...
that would probably be the attached two dimensional two playered game,
written in G, which is NOT an object based language. It took me six hours of jury rigging to set it up, and then I had to tweak out all the bugs and add more weapons, which took an additional forty or so hours. :mrgreen:
Try it! (WARNING: FILE IS FROM 5-10 MB)
www.freewebs.com/netbt
(Edit: ARGH! Freewebs doesnt allow more than 750k uploads! $#%#@$$@#$%#%@(*^(%%^%$36546 :evil: :evil: :evil: )
that would probably be the attached two dimensional two playered game,
written in G, which is NOT an object based language. It took me six hours of jury rigging to set it up, and then I had to tweak out all the bugs and add more weapons, which took an additional forty or so hours. :mrgreen:
Try it! (WARNING: FILE IS FROM 5-10 MB)
www.freewebs.com/netbt
(Edit: ARGH! Freewebs doesnt allow more than 750k uploads! $#%#@$$@#$%#%@(*^(%%^%$36546 :evil: :evil: :evil: )
Cheese. In fact, I rather dislike cheese.
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Cool. Have you seen Eclipse? It's a Java IDE written in Java... well mostly Java. Why did you think that the Java required more code than C#? From my experience, they are roughly equivalent. The only code saving option for projects is finding similar open source projects's code to leverage. Though... the only problem with that is in the licensing of the code. I think Apple has had to reinvent the wheel for a number of open sourced projects (think RPM) because of incompatible licensing.
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Originally Posted by Pimp Daddy
As for personal work there is Longhaul. This is an IDE I'm currently creating which can be used to type, compile, execute and debug Java code. I started typing it in Java but I needed to type so much code I eventually switched to C# and am now using Windows Forms. It's as tough as the pieces of uni coursework that I mentioned because I'm learning complex new concepts on the fly and there are so many different sections to the program. The main editor window is also by far the biggest code file I've ever created, which is not necessarily a good thing!
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In a world without walls or fences,
What use are Windows and Gates.
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i would like the ASM code of the restart computer program
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i would like to have the code for the restart prg
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Originally Posted by Mahen
i would like to have the code for the restart prg
Hi Mahen. It has been awhile since I visited - sorry for the wait. The old real-mode DOS interrupt to restart is int 19h:
Run DEBUG from a DOS box, type a (for enter assembly), and enter "int 19".
Press enter again to get out of coding mode and type "d 100"
The dump will give you "CD 19" in the first two bytes. Now the tricky part:
debug has a w (write) instruction that can write to any unprotected disk space. You need to adjust a couple of registers before writing:
enter "n reboot.com"
-- that sets a file name for you
enter "rcx"
-- that displays the cx value (forget that you are on a 32-bit system)
enter "2"
-- that puts a 2 in cx (write size)
enter "w"
-- that [shudder] writes from your current ds:100
Enter "q"
-- that gets you out of that deadly program
There you have it. A 2-byte program that uses real-mode DOS ints.
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>What's the HARDEST program you've written?
Operating system. Well, technically I didn't write it, but I did patch it into behaving and that consisted of replacing about 90% of the code.
Operating system. Well, technically I didn't write it, but I did patch it into behaving and that consisted of replacing about 90% of the code.
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tricky...
Once wrote a complete middleware system to link store terminals (running some fancy software we would not be writing) with a Cobol backend we maintained.
Didn't write it alone of course, was part of a team of 3.
During internal beta testing (using a dummy frontend to generate the messages from textfiles) the customer decided they didn't want the product and the subproject was scrapped. But it did work.
Or the most tricky app I wrote that actually made it to production was a C program written under OS/2 to swap the assignments of the mouse buttons.
For security reasons the customer didn't want their users to access the existing control panel applet. Added complexity was that the settings would have to be stored on the network and applied whenever the user logged on to any machine in the network.
Sounds simple (that's what I thought too when I started), until you find out that the calls required are not part of the published API for the operating system.
In the end I spent about 3 days writing the program (most of it on the network code) and 3 weeks trying to figure out what calls to use and what the heck those parameters meant by using a kernel debugger from a remote terminal and hacking into the operating system code for OS/2 on a running machine.
Start debugger, launch applet, change setting, and see what calls are generated...
Once wrote a complete middleware system to link store terminals (running some fancy software we would not be writing) with a Cobol backend we maintained.
Didn't write it alone of course, was part of a team of 3.
During internal beta testing (using a dummy frontend to generate the messages from textfiles) the customer decided they didn't want the product and the subproject was scrapped. But it did work.
Or the most tricky app I wrote that actually made it to production was a C program written under OS/2 to swap the assignments of the mouse buttons.
For security reasons the customer didn't want their users to access the existing control panel applet. Added complexity was that the settings would have to be stored on the network and applied whenever the user logged on to any machine in the network.
Sounds simple (that's what I thought too when I started), until you find out that the calls required are not part of the published API for the operating system.
In the end I spent about 3 days writing the program (most of it on the network code) and 3 weeks trying to figure out what calls to use and what the heck those parameters meant by using a kernel debugger from a remote terminal and hacking into the operating system code for OS/2 on a running machine.
Start debugger, launch applet, change setting, and see what calls are generated...
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Originally Posted by jwenting
tricky...
Once wrote a complete middleware system to link store terminals (running some fancy software we would not be writing) with a Cobol backend we maintained.
Didn't write it alone of course, was part of a team of 3.
During internal beta testing (using a dummy frontend to generate the messages from textfiles) the customer decided they didn't want the product and the subproject was scrapped. But it did work.
Or the most tricky app I wrote that actually made it to production was a C program written under OS/2 to swap the assignments of the mouse buttons.
For security reasons the customer didn't want their users to access the existing control panel applet. Added complexity was that the settings would have to be stored on the network and applied whenever the user logged on to any machine in the network.
Sounds simple (that's what I thought too when I started), until you find out that the calls required are not part of the published API for the operating system.
In the end I spent about 3 days writing the program (most of it on the network code) and 3 weeks trying to figure out what calls to use and what the heck those parameters meant by using a kernel debugger from a remote terminal and hacking into the operating system code for OS/2 on a running machine.
Start debugger, launch applet, change setting, and see what calls are generated...
Wow. Just wow.
what? WHAT?
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