This challenge is to build your own version of the classic arcade game Asteroids. Asteroids, which was was first released in 1979, sees the player controlling a spaceship in an asteroid field. The objective of the game is to destroy the asteroids and the occasional flying saucer by shooting them.
This challenge is to build your own version of the Unix Command line tool cat.
This challenge is to build your own Chrome extension. Chrome extensions are a software programs that extends the functionality of the Google Chrome web browser. They are typically written in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, and they modify or enhance the browser’s functionality in some way.
This challenge is to build your own version of the Unix command line tool cut!
This challenge is to build your own Discord Bot.
This challenge is to build your own version of the GitHub contributions graph:
This challenge is to build your own version of the Unix command line tool head. It’s a great challenge for beginners and those new to the Unix command line tools.
This challenge is to build your own Memcached CLI client. Memcached is a free, open source, high-performance, distributed memory object caching system. It is intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by reducing database load.
This challenge is to build your own version of the game Minesweeper.
This challenge is to build your own version of John the Ripper or CrackStation. These are password cracking tools that can be used to recover passwords, by penetration testers and of course bad guys.
This challenge is to build your own version of a Pastebin. A pastebin is a text storage site that allows users to store plain text in order to share it with other people.
For as long as I have been interested in programming, programmers have been learning by building computer games. Many of us start with Pong and over time progress to either copying other more complex games, building our own from scratch or customising existing games.
This challenge is to build your own real-time chat server and client.
This challenge is to build your own version of the Unix command line tool sed (short for Stream Editor)!
This challenge is to build your own version of the classic game snake.
This challenge is to build your own version of the Unix command line tool sort!
This challenge is to build your own version of space invaders.
This challenge is to build your own micro spell checker. The goal is to create a spell checker that can determine if a word is probably spelt correctly without having to store the full list of words. Thus the spell checker can use less storage (disk or memory). A task that is much less relevant these days, but 20 years ago was incredibly useful on low storage devices.
This challenge is to build your own Spotify Client using the Spotify API.
This challenge is to build your own Spotify backup tool. It’s inspired by my kids who wanted to ensure they can backup and move their playlists that they’ve spent ages curating. They’re not the only people who had this problem and we’re not the first to solve it.
This challenge is to build your own static site generator, i.e. something like Hugo (an open source static site generator built in Go).
This challenge is to build your own Sudoku game!
This challenge is to build your own version of tar. Tar is a Unix command line tool that was designed as a utility to collect multiple files into one archive for backup purposes. It was first released in 1979 when the normal backup medium was magnetic tape, hence tar acquired it’s name as shortening of “tape archive”.
For as long as I have been interested in programming, programmers have been learning by building computer games. Many of us started by building our own Pong and over time progress to either copying other more complex games, building our own game from scratch or customising existing games.
This challenge is to build your own version of the Unix command line tool uniq.
This challenge is to build your own URL shortening service. Think bit.ly or tinyurl.com.
This challenge is to build your own version of the Unix command line tool wc!
This challenge is to build your own version of Wheel of Names.
This challenge is to build your own version of xxd. Xxd is a Unix command line tool to create hexdumps and to convert a hexdump back into it’s binary form.
This challenge is to build your own zip file cracking tool.