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

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 5

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 6

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 7

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 8

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 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

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 11

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 12

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