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 game Minesweeper.
This challenge is to build your own Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tool. OCR tools date back to work that began in 1914 aimed at creating reading devices for the blind. These days they’re used to extract text from images and videos either for information archival purposes or in apps like Google Translate that can both detect text in an image or video and translate it to another language!
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.
A QR code (short for quick-response code) is a sort of two dimensional barcode. They were invented in 1994 by the Japanese company Denso Wave to label car parts. Like barcodes they are a machine readable optical image that can contain information.
This challenge is to build your own version of the classic game snake.
This challenge is to build your own version of space invaders.
This challenge is to build your own Sudoku game!
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 Wheel of Names.