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 # Project Ideas
-## Programming challenges
-![](res/challenges_1.png)
 
 ## An extended list of project ideas:
 - [20 Exciting Software Development Project Ideas & Topics for Beginners](https://www.upgrad.com/blog/software-development-project-ideas-topics-for-beginners/)
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 - [Rosetta Code](http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Programming_Tasks)
 - [Epic List Of Side Project Ideas For Programmers](https://livingliferichly.com/epic-list-of-side-project-ideas-for-programmers)
 - [5 project ideas](https://medium.com/@JohanneA/5-project-ideas-for-programmers-who-dont-know-what-to-work-on-next-51fdb191cbde)
+
+## Programming Challenges
+
+### Easy
+1. **Markov chain sentence generator**
+2. **To-do list application (Web or cli)**
+3. **Chatbot**
+4. **Image to ASCII Art**
+5. **Imageboard** (Imagine vichan)
+6. **Create an HSV Color Representation**
+7. **Old school demo effects** (Plasma, Tunnel, Scrollers, Zoomers, etc)
+8. **Fizzbuzz**
+9. **RPN Calculator**
+10. **Count occurences of characters in a given string**
+11. **Towers of Hanoi**
+12. **Calculator the first n digits of pi**
+13. **Given an array of stock values over time, find the period of time where the stocks could have made the most money**
+14. **Highest prime factor calculator**
+15. **Password generator**
+16. **Caesar cipher solver**
+17. **ROT 13**
+18. **Text encryption/decryption** (http://rumkin.com/tools/cipher/)
+19. **Text to hex/binary converter**
+20. **Sierpinski triangle**
+21. **Basic neural network** - Simulate individual neurons and their connections
+22. **Complimentary colour generator**
+23. **Eulerian path**
+24. **Draw spinning 3D cube**
+25. **Cellular textures**
+26. **Snake**
+27. **Rock paper scissors**
+28. **Design a game engine in Unity**
+29. **Yahtzee**
+30. **Oil Panic**
+31. **Connect four**
+32. **Simon**
+33. **Ulam spiral**
+34. **PDF tagger**
+35. **ASCII digital clock**
+69. **Calculate dot and cross product of two vectors**
+
+### Medium
+1. **Download manager**
+2. **Elastic producer/consumer task queue**
+3. **IRC client**
+4. **English sentence parser that points to the context of a sentence**
+5. **MIDI player & editor**
+6. **Stock market simulator using yahoo spreadsheet data**
+7. **Graphing calculator**
+8. **TCP/UDP chat server & client**
+9. **Shazam**
+10. **Curses text editor**
+11. **Paint clone**
+12. **Image converter**
+13. **ID3 Reader**
+14. **C++ IDE plugin for sublime/atom/vscode**
+15. **Simple version control** - supporting checkout, commit, unlocking, per-file configuration of number of revisions kept
+16. **Password manager**
+17. **IP/URL Obscurification**
+18. **Radix base converter**
+19. **Encrypted file share**
+20. **Window manager**
+21. **Pixel editor**
+22. **Trivial file transfer protocol**
+23. **Markdown editor**
+24. **Music visualizer**
+25. **Unicode converter**
+26. **Least square fitting algorithm**
+27. **Image steganography**
+28. **Vignere cipher encryption/decryption**
+29. **Game of life**
+30. **Dijkstra's Algorthim**
+31. **Program that displays MBR Contents**
+32. **Random name generator**
+33. **Calculate the first 1,000 digits of pi iteratively**
+34. **Mandlebrot set**
+35. **AI for roguelikes**
+36. **Sudoku/n-puzzle solver using A\* algorithm**
+37. **Connect 4 AI**
+38. **Real neural network** - Implement a basic feed-forward neural network using matrices for entire layers along with matrix operations for computations
+40. **Virtual machine with a script that writes "Hello, world"**
+41. **Terminal shell** (Executable binaries, pipe system, redirection, history
+42. **HTML & Javascript debugger**
+43. **Interpreted LISP-like programming language**
+44. **Universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter game**
+45. **Static website generator** (Scriptable template, content)
+46. **Chip 8 emulator**
+47. **Double pendulum simulation**
+48. **Constructive solid geometry**
+49. **Generate a 5-colour scheme from the most dominant tones in an image**
+50. **N-body simulator** - with particles having a certain mass and radius depdning on the mass that merge if they collide
+51. **Knight's tour**
+52. **Tetris**
+53. **Pipe dreams**
+54. **Pac man**
+55. **Shuffling a deck of cards** (with visualisation)
+56. **Simulate a game of tag using a multi-agent system**
+57. **Scorched earch clone**
+58. **Minesweeper**
+59. **An audio/visual 64KB demonstration**
+60. **Sudoku**
+61. **Chess**
+62. **Mastermind**
+63. **Missle command game**
+64. **Tron**
+65. **Breakout**
+66. **Bellman-Ford simulation with at least five vertices**
+67. **Matrix arithmetic**
+68. **File compression Utility** (GUI)
+70. **Bismuth fractal**
+71. **Seam carving**
+72. **Bayesian Filter**
+
+### Difficult
+1. **Parametric/Graphic equalizer for .wav files**
+2. **Verlet integration**
+3. **Sound Synthesis**
+4. **Torrent client** (CLI or GUI)
+5. **Text editor**
+6. **OpenAI Gym project**
+7. **Convolutional neural network** - Implement a convolutional NN for a handwritten digit recognition test on MNIST dataset
+8. **Mount filesystems from other OSes using FUSE model**
+9. **Pong game as a UEFI file in colour**
+10. **Esoteric Language**
+11. **C Compiler**
+12. **Turing machine simulator**
+13. **Read, evaluate, print loop using a compiled language**
+14. **Ray tracer**
+15. **Real-time fast fourier transform spectrum visualiser**
+16. **TI-86 emulator**
+17. **Monster raising/breeding simulator**
+18. **Dragon quest / basic RPG engine**
+19. **First person engine in OpenGL**
+20. **Wolfensetin clone**
+21. **Danmaku engine**
+22. **Roguelike engine/dungeon generator**
+23. **Go**
+24. **LISP Interpreter**
+25. **Nonogram generator and solver**
+26. **WMS viewer that isn't web based**
+
+### Very difficult 
+1. **Relational database system** (SQL support, relationships, efficient)
+2. **Bootloader**
+3. **General Lambert's problem solver**
+4. **Concolutional Neural Network** - Implement your own convolutional neural network for handwritten digit recognition, test on MNIST dataset