I have found a list of 'programs every programmer should write in his life'
Most of those should be very short programs, great for killing time :)
I will try to write them in different languages as this may be a great opportunity to learn.
| No | Name | Language |
|---|---|---|
| 00 | Name Generator | |
| 01 | LOLCODE | |
| 02 | Temperature Converter | |
| 03 | Calculate Age in Seconds | |
| 04 | Encrypt/Decrypt Algorithm | |
| 05 | Prolog | |
| 06 | Rock Paper Scissors | |
| 07 | Hangman | |
| 08 | Love Calculator | |
| 09 | Pseudorandom Sentence Generator | |
| 10 | Password Generator | |
| 11 | Atomically Correct Time From an Internet Clock | |
| 12 | Haiku Generator | |
| 13 | Magic Eight Ball | |
| 14 | Collatz Conjecture | |
| 15 | Reverse a String | |
| 16 | Simple File Explorer | |
| 17 | Count Words in a String | |
| 18 | Minesweeper | |
| 19 | Connect Four | |
| 20 | BMI Calculator | |
| 21 | 4Chan Thread Downloader (Images) | |
| 22 | Sudoku Generator/Solver | |
| 23 | Maze Generator/Solver | |
| 24 | Decimal/Binary Converter | |
| 25 | Picross Solver | |
| 26 | Eulerian Path | |
| 27 | Fibonacci Sequence | |
| 28 | Calculate & Print 100 Factorial | |
| 29 | Create a cipher encrypt/decrypt tool | |
| 30 | Blackjack | |
| 31 | Dungeons & Dragons w/AI | |
| 32 | Generate ASCII Tree (height based on input) | |
| 33 | Use Genetic Algorithm on Polygons | |
| 34 | Benford's Law | |
| 35 | Currency Converter | |
| 36 | Static Website Generator | |
| 37 | Crossword Game | |
| 38 | Scientific Calculator | |
| 39 | Perlin Noise Algorithm | |
| 40 | Image Viewer | |
| 41 | ASCII Digital Clock | |
| 42 | Dijkstra's Algorithm | |
| 43 | Text/Morse Translator | |
| 44 | Tic-Tac-Toe | |
| 45 | Snake Game | |
| 46 | FTP Client | |
| 47 | Telnet Server | |
| 48 | IMP Interpreter | |
| 49 | Tetris | |
| 50 | Conway's Game of Life | |
| 51 | Web Crawler | |
| 52 | Text Editor | |
| 53 | RSS Feed Creator | |
| 54 | Evaluate Binomial Coefficients | |
| 55 | RPN Calculator | |
| 56 | Mandlebrot Set | |
| 57 | Sorting Algorithm | |
| 58 | Convert Markup -> HTML | |
| 59 | N Queens Problem | |
| 60 | Credential Validator | |
| 61 | Linked List | |
| 62 | Mastermind | |
| 63 | Random Image Generator | |
| 64 | Ulam Spiral | |
| 65 | Klingon Translator | |
| 66 | Prime number generator using a Sieve | |
| 67 | Markov Chain | |
| 68 | GRaphical Analog Clock + GUI | |
| 69 | 2 separate languages send strings to one another | |
| 70 | Triangle Number Calculator | |
| 71 | Calculate Typing Speed | |
| 72 | Name Art in Ascii | |
| 73 | Towers of Hanoi | |
| 74 | Quine | |
| 75 | IRC Bot | |
| 76 | Brainfuck Interpreter | |
| 77 | Visualisation of #57 | |
| 78 | TypeScript | |
| 79 | Geekcode Generator (3.12) | |
| 80 | Define Translate & Rotate a Polygon | |
| 81 | Pong w/Variable Vectors | |
| 82 | Battleships w/AI | |
| 83 | Simple Paint Program | |
| 84 | TCP Chat w/Basic Encryption (XOR) | |
| 85 | Incremental Economy Simulator (Time of Exploration) | |
| 86 | Encrypt/Decrypt Text into an Image | |
| 87 | Pascal's Triangle | |
| 88 | Sine Wave Generator from Pseudorandom Numbers | |
| 89 | Basic HTML Web Browser | |
| 90 | Flappy Bird | |
| 91 | Fast Fourier Transform | |
| 92 | Method Ringing Simulator | |
| 93 | Binary Search | |
| 94 | Nintendo Oil Panic | |
| 95 | Sierpinski Triangle Generator | |
| 96 | Calculate Dot & Cross of 2 Vectors | |
| 97 | Little Man Computer Simulator | |
| 98 | Basic Lisp Interpreter | |
| 99 | Enigma Machine Simulator with settings |