Largest project you've worked on...

[tmcd35]

I'm nowhere near to being even a competent programmer. Then again I hate it, I find it mononous and boring. That said I have written a few lines of code - mostly text based console stuff.

 

Some of my finest moments include...

 

An adventure game based on the London Underground written with GAC (Graphical Adventure Creater) for a Amstrad Action magazine compition.

 

An interpreter, originonally written in BBC BASIC and then "ported" to Amos BASIC, for the Pilot programming language.

 

A very simple 8bit RISC processor emulator and machine monitor written in Turbo Pascal. This was part of my university degree course.

 

A HTML/PHP/SQL database for our schools IT assets database. Probably the single most modular design I've come up with and has since been expanded for logging non IT assets.

[bossman]

I once wrote a batch file (have written a couple more since) still don't like programming, I feel you have to have a certain mindset to get underneath the bonnet of whichever OS system you are using and as I am out of my mind this doesn't help.

[broc]

I started my IT career in 1972 as a programmer; I spend a whole summer converting & recompiling Fortran subroutines to run on an IBM Mainframe..... it was soul destroying. I then learned to program in PL/I as a commercial programmer analyst before becoming a mainframe systems programmer on IBM S/360, then S/370, ending up on Z-Series before moving into services & consultancy in 1990. I only turned to the 'dark side' of Windows about 8-10 years ago......

 

I have seen programming languages evolve considerably over the last 37 years; the first 'huge' mainframe system I worked on had 4mb memory & where every bit counted, the last was a closely coupled cluster of mainframes each with 32gb, running huge DB2 relational databases......

 

I do admire anyone who can write games code though; my brain is too firmly locked into 'boring' systems programming to ever change now.... not that I write much these days.... just a few scripts

[pod]

To answer your question, I created a room booking system for my school and now other schools use it. It's sort of grown and become a commercial thing, although I haven't given up the day job just yet.

 

On the back of my booking system I have now been employed by a large company to create a bespoke booking system, this time for the public to book facilities out of school hours for a group of schools. This is a big project so I have partnered with another IT firm and they provide support.

 

I have come to realise that those who create, rather than maintain, tend to get more kudos or money for their efforts. Most folk here like myself work in support roles but there is always opportunity to create new solutions in education as we usually have the resources and know-how to do so.

[SteveMC]

Narrowly escaped becoming a full-time software engineer (didn't fancy being stuck in a cubicle at BAE Systems), but since then have done a fair few PHP-based projects, probably the one that's seen the most actual use is the RISC OS Filebase (and the associated ANS Newsletter) - been going for over ten years now, and the current code dates back quite a way, so it's probably fairly 'orrible

 

I'm currently working on our new internal (and eventually external) helpdesk/knowledgebase/stock-control/online-quotation-mangement system - which is presently around 24,500 lines of code.

 

 

Stephen

[Friez]

I was a major feature programmer for Stepmania. Short of that, loads of in-house systems are coded by yours truely.

[mac_shinobi]

Dabbled around with vb 6 and some vb .net but mostly been vb scripting ( a printer script on one of the threads I've posted ) and done some asp classic with sql and querrying the slq db as well as some php - not sure if scripting and the likes counts ?

 

I saw some vb 6 DX examples but at the time after a month of starting vb 6 some years ago looked a bit daunting and complicated so never tried anything more but would be nice to give some open gl or dx stuff a shot.

 

Not to go off on a tanget but if someone could post some decent tutorials on either direct x or open gl using vb .net - not too great with c# yet and vb.net would be a nice starting point ref direct x or open gl.

Edited November 23, 2009 by mac_shinobi

[Marci]

Used to run Romarchive.com, which was a massive online archive of Rom files for classic arcade machines (effectively, the complete MAME Roms database) with full credits system and programming interface for restoring the roms onto arcade EPROMs, and also allowed users to hook up their arcade machines and make live backups of their current roms to their account... but my partner in the project passed away and it's long since been abandoned and lost to the depths of time. Now just do webdesign / PHP dev work.

[jdoyle]

 

A very simple 8bit RISC processor emulator and machine monitor written in Turbo Pascal. This was part of my university degree course.

 

 

ditto. Created a software simulation of Stanford Uni's MIPS-X RISC Processor in Turbo Pascal (loved it) for my degree.

 

used Turbo Pascal to create a registration system for day release students attending a college.

 

used VBA in Excel and Word to process loads of data from Quantity Surveyors to generate Tax Certificates for clients to claim back capital allowances on buildings and machinery.

 

C project as part of a team at Case Communications in Watford - ship to shore messaging system for the Russians in the era of Glasnost.

 

VBA project to track the replication of Video of Demand files across hundreds of windows media servers.

 

Can't say I've done much programming for years. A batch file to convert SPX files to MP3 format using VLC is one of the few pseudo programming task in recent memory.

[MNHughes]

I guess this doesn't really count but i'm just learning to walk with PHP so I decieded to give myself a project of creating a CMS still working on it though, fingers crossed.

[LosOjos]

Largest project I ever worked on was just for pleasure (programming for pleasure, am I really that geeky?!)

 

It was a Worms style TBS called Gorilla Warfare (that's not a typo, the characters were all gorillas ) made up of a few thousand lines of code including a random terrain generator (took hours to get the math right on that one!) and was on the path to having 'plug-in' style weapons (i.e. you'd be able to download weapons online, add them to a folder on your hard drive and use them in-game).

 

Spent around 4 months chipping away a couple of hours a day and then *disaster* HDD failure, lost the lot.

 

Moral of the story (and a tough lesson learned) ALWAYS MAKE BACKUPS!

[PEO]

probably making a baby with the future wife.

[mrwITch]

Dabbled around with vb 6 and some vb .net but mostly been vb scripting ( a printer script on one of the threads I've posted ) and done some asp classic with sql and querrying the slq db as well as some php - not sure if scripting and the likes counts ?

 

I saw some vb 6 DX examples but at the time after a month of starting vb 6 some years ago looked a bit daunting and complicated so never tried anything more but would be nice to give some open gl or dx stuff a shot.

 

Not to go off on a tanget but if someone could post some decent tutorials on either direct x or open gl using vb .net - not too great with c# yet and vb.net would be a nice starting point ref direct x or open gl.

 

 

Try some of these

OpenGL - The Industry Standard for High Performance Graphics

 

OpenGL API Code & Tutorial Listings

 

Getting started - OpenGL.org

[smadison]

moving 200,000 websites from unix platform to linux in two months without customers even knowing what was happening

[SimpleSi]

Just noticed this thread.

 

When BBC Micro came out, I wrote a floppy disc based database suite called TxBase (just in case anyone with a copy is reading this - I'd love to find a copy of it!)

 

But my best program was my BBC Micro emulator of the original Star Trek mainframe game -its what microcomputers were invented for! - Ah - the good old days when life was simple and my brayn still worked OK

 

regards

 

Simon

[jamesfed]

A few VB scripts for my ICT project at college, mainly macros for Excel and Access nothing fancy just functional tools.

Maybe 200 lines (with 100 of them recorded).

I’d love to learn more about programming one day but just don’t have the enthusiasm to take it up in any serious way.

[AyatollahPies]

 int main() 
{
       printf("hello, world");
       return 0;
}

[autismuk]

Try some of these

OpenGL - The Industry Standard for High Performance Graphics

 

OpenGL API Code & Tutorial Listings

 

Getting started - OpenGL.org

 

Problem is doing these from many IDEs is appalling. Why not start by tinkering with XNA Game Studio ?

 

Admittedly it is C# but the VB.Net is just C# with a new syntax. I have seen DX/OGL and other tuts for VB but they tend to be less common because most people don't like VB.

[LosOjos]

Problem is doing these from many IDEs is appalling. Why not start by tinkering with XNA Game Studio ?

 

Admittedly it is C# but the VB.Net is just C# with a new syntax. I have seen DX/OGL and other tuts for VB but they tend to be less common because most people don't like VB.

 

As a regular user of VB.Net and XNA Game Studio, I can vouch for that. Very easy to get in to, great results and if you really get in to it, for £65 a year (don't quote me on the price) you can publish your creations to Xbox Live Marketplace and earn a few quid