Major programming Dillemma here!!!

[OneOfTheseDays]

Ok here's the deal. I am taking a visual basic 6.0 programming class. My teacher taught for the first half of the semester and basically just threw random projects at us the rest of the semester. My knowledge about the various functions is very limited. I know very basic knowledge about vb 6.0. Now, our final project is approaching in a couple of days. My friends and I decided to make a board game, but now we realize we just don't know enough about visual basic to make this program. We need an idea for an easy program to make that demonstrates at least some knowledge and will hopefully score us a decent grade. Any suggestions/ ideas are welcome.

 

[Tomek]

how easy and how much do you know? if you want something really simple you could probably do something like Othello or Tic-Tac-Toe

 

[minendo]

for our VB project we had to make a computer simulated library that allows students to check out books, return them. allowed admins to add new books, see over due books, check status of books. it took forever trying to call information from the two arrays. but its done now and ive got my A in Visual Basic class.

tic tac toe would be extremely easy

 

[EagleKeeper]

Build a simulated Blackjack game.

There rules of the game are standard and the implimentation of the code should be straight forward.

I have used this projects when teaching both Basic and C at a local JC in the continuing educational coputer classes.

Most students have been able to complete it within a weeks time.

 

[Cheetah8799]

Think up some sort of utility for your computer. Maybe a new File Manager program.. Just something simple though, like drag and drop files, renaming, deleting, etc.

Or maybe a username/password utility that will store text info in a flatfile database. Of course you might not know the how to encrypt the passwords, but at least it would be a useful utility.

Or some sort of database program. Write a VB program that can access a MS Access database and insert/edit/delete stuff from it. Make it useful, like something that keeps track of products, prices, quantity and other things for a store.

Hope some of those ideas help. Good Luck.

 

[AmigaMan]

I second EagleKeeper's suggestion, Blackjack. I had a project for an elective Intro to Java class for which I designed a simple one or two player blackjack program. It didn't have a GUI, but the prof didn't ask for one either. It used sorting algorithms for the card shuffling (which I "borrowed" from my Intro to C++ book) and took about a week to do.