ProgrammerK: Legacy Code Repository

This repository is mainly setup for historical reasons, namely, I would like to keep a collection of all my old code, especially when I first started programming. A short summary of the main highlights, or the lack of, is provided below:

C

Project KINE

• Objective:

  • Develop an AI that learns and solves a very specific branch of psysics questions (kinematics of linear motion) on Yahoo answers.

• Features Complete:

  • An incomplete text based terminal that navigates around.

• Notes:

  • Perhaps my earliest real programming project.
  • This project was inspired during the time when I was answering basic science questions on Yahoo answers.
  • The time taken to type up the answer and draw ASCII art per question took ~1hr but answering the question itself took around 5-10 minutes.
  • There were a large amount of similar repetitive questions but phrased slightly differently.

• Progress:

  • 5/100 (RETIRED)
  • I later learned that C wasn't the best language suited for this task so I switched languages to Python eventually (see Python directory).
  • Years later, after becoming exposed to real-world programming, I've come to a realisation: The questions answered are generic and all similar, if people can't be bothered Googling and replugging numbers to their questions, then they not to abuse my time for help; the project is over.

Risk Of Rain Network Analysis

• Objective:

  • Assist in solving one of the wierdest network problems I encountered for a game (quite a good one might I add) called "Risk of Rain" for someone on the Risk of Rain forums.
  • Namely, the code is meant to parse a file containing port numbers (obtained through CMD) and plot port numbers against time.
  • The main idea was to figure out whether the port allocation was assigned by the game engine.

• Features Complete:

  • No specific feature completed but there is some code related to reading and parsing the file, handling dynamic arrays and a simple text based terminal.

• Notes:

  • One of my earlier programming projects mainly created in the process of learning more about networking through helping people on the Risk of Rain forums.
  • Since the problem seemed out of my league, I posted else where to seek advice but unfortunately didn't make it that far: http://superuser.com/questions/752242/game-clients-listening-server-unable-to-establish-a-successful-tcp-connection

• Progress:

  • 30/100 (RETIRED)
  • In the end, I didn't need to plot the data strictly but I just needed to roughly understand the range of port numbers the data file swept across, so the project was abandoned.