What is the coolest program you've personally written?

Question

Have you completed any programs? Inside or outside of SoloLearn? Tell me about your favorite accomplishments.

I've been coding a long time and have written some very cool apps over the years. Probably my favorite app was something I wrote long ago that could dial the phone and automatically play a radio station call-in conterst. I won the contest about twice a week. I earned cash prizes of either $100 or $500 for each win. Grand total for me was around $15,000 before they finally stopped running the game.

I donated more than half of the proceeds. I was just proud I could write such a handy little script.

Answer 1

There's no feed in the web app

Answer 2

Usually these type post go in your feed. My favorite accomplisment is when
I patched an internet connection issue that involved Windows ME over a decade ago. At the time, no one had service on a certain military base, which had recently upgraded to Windows ME. The technician in charge was stumped and couldn't figure it out – I only found out about the problem because I wasn't able to connect to the internet myself. I met with the tech after inquiring about the issue, and to my surprise, they trusted me with the task of solving the problem. It was cool that they did, and I successfully resolved the issue. As a result of my success, I got hired by Sprint, but since I was still active duty at the time, it was a unique situation. However, it ended up being cool because I didn't have to attend formations anymore. It was impressive enough that a seperate military establisment tried to recruit me for a classified position.

Answer 3

Jerry unfortunately as Chris Coder mentioned this is not actually code related issues or questions concerning algorithms,,, This is offtopic and open-ended AS a discussion best suited for a "Share YOUR Thoughts" post from the -> Activity Feed.

Answer 4

Jerry Hobby , my friend, I was stating that you should have created a post in your feed or "Share YOUR Thoughts" in the main "Activity Feed"

You have created posts in the past ...

Answer 5

BroFar -- and I remember doing this ages ago. But for the life of me I can't find any of that. I can only find this DISCUSS section. I cannot find my feed anywhere. Is it in the app only? I'm using the website. Driving me crazy because I remember it was there.

Answer 6

Chris Coder - My top menu bar consists of:

Discuss
Code Bits
Leaderboard
Blog

Blog appears to be a SoloLearn staff only feature. Discuss is this forum. It feels like I'm missing something.

Answer 7

I work mainly on games, physics and maths. My game "okay?" (Now100% open source) unexpectedly blow up on github and I became popular for some days earning $4000

The game was originally written with no libraries in c++ (opengl3) and runs on windows. Later on I have to rewrite it from scratch in c# to run on mobile. We discover kotlin and then port the source to kotlin after few months.

I also have some useful tools mostly in networking but those never get popular

Answer 8

To those of you pointing out that this should have been posted in my feed --- I am searching everywhere and not finding that. Anyone who can respond with precisely where to post articles like this in my "feed", let me know.
Thanks

Answer 9

Jerry Hobby I'm happy you posted it here, otherwise I wouldn't have seen it. But if you tap community you will see FEED in the top right

Answer 10

Interesting point Jerry Hobby
https://www.sololearn.com/en/Discuss/2183188/how-do-i-make-a-post-on-sololearns-website-without-using-the-questions-board

Answer 11

In my country, as a result of high cost of living ,you have to learn an extra skill to ease things.i am learning coding because of my strong passion for coding,and the benefits I would gain.

Answer 12

Sorry Jerry Hobby , we seemed to have missed the fact that you weren't using the app. RuntimeTerror thanks for pointing it out

Answer 13

I'm just starting to learn Python in HS after learning HTML. The coolest program I made from scratch was one that could calculate the area of a cylinder. (Using Inputs) I hope to be able to learn more from others on this platform.