Idea's thread

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Hey Guys,

Can we get somekind of Idea's thread going because I suck at thinking of things to program, but I love programming in general.

Also, to a mod; Can we get this thread or something similar stickied so people, like myself, can look down and pick up some ideas to program.

I'll start us off.

 

Calculator [Who hasn't made a calculator when learning simple functions?]

Simple Server [Something you can just telnet to, get a basic socket connection, learn basic sockets.]

Messenger [I've made this myself, however it be buggy, at least it worked, and an Idea for someone learning.]

 

Can other people suggest some, I'd like to get into programming but i'm always out of ideas.

 

 

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What I would do if your out of ideas is browse open source repositorys (github source-forge ect.) and just look around till you find an project that's interesting then you could contribute, make it your own(modify for your needs), or add it to another project their alot of stuff out there so your bound to find something good.

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I made a task manager once. Had a CPU usage graph and everything. Only problem was, the program itself used about 10% CPU usage on my old slow laptop!

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To start off, I don't believe that having an idea's thread stickied since usually its a personal thing to think of. 

Getting back to the point, I have made various programs just to make game development easier. Usually these programs are found in Game Engines, but I still like to make quality packages without worrying about the bigger picture as much.

Another thing I see being misused commonly is a Repository browser/manager. I'm sure I just haven't looked hard enough, but with newer programmers, I get asked a lot about how to use them. So a straight forward Repository manager is another good idea. 

I've also had this neat idea in the back of my head of a file sorter which runs with the OS (I would make this for linux of course) and sorts data based on its usage. A bit like one of Wendell's ideas from a  few months ago. 

In a little while maybe the next month or two, I'm actually going to start looking into making a lightweight Java IDE so I can program while I travel. I doubt I'll get much done, but its still worth a shot. The IDE would be fairly simple, project view, library manager, exporting, and auto complete. 

Then one of my largers hopes is to be able to make/work on a completely functional linux distribution starting from scratch.