I currently primarily code in Java at work with some VB .Net on the side. I've done my share of coding in other languages and am very much wanting to program on the Mac. I've gotten the Aaron Hillegass book, another book which is more current which doesn't teach Objective-C but rather how to use the newest version of XCode, and a few other books here and there. It's a process of course and takes time but I know at some point I'll get where I need to be to start making Apps. For some reason the connections between interface builder and XCode baffle me... I'm probably thinking too hard on it... 
Anyway... I'm already off-topic in my own thread...
I've been keeping a list of programs that I think would be fun to code. None of them are particularly useful but I think they're good projects. Right now I run two screens (20" Intel iMac and 20" Dell screen) so most of my ideas use two screens in a fun way.
Wallpaper changer
Apple's built in wallpaper changer will change wallpapers for you but currently as far as I know there is no way to have the 2 screens change at the same time to their correct images. A decent amount of people with two screens have a left and right image and like to give the effect of them being one image. I thought a program to change both the left and the right image at the same time at random so long as the left and right were randomly their counterparts would be a fun little program that people could use.
Man In A Video Game Screensaver
This idea was spurred about by wondering how I could utilize both screens as an entertaining screen saver. My current screen layout is the left screen is 1050x1680 and my right screen is 1680x1050. The right screen is centered to the left screen as I'm trying to show below.
My thought was to have a stick figure in the bottom of the left screen with the screen boundaries being walls and ceilings and floors. As he is standing there waiting a Tetris game starts playing on the left screen (A.I.!) and he realizes he needs to avoid the falling blocks. He avoids them and starts climbing up them as he can. Once he gets high enough he sees nothing is going on on the right screen and can walk over to that screen. Once he gets over there though another game of some sort starts and he attempts to stay alive there... maybe he returns back to the left side? Who knows? Not really sure where to take it from there though.
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Anyway... those are two ideas I've had. Anybody else have some interesting ideas they want to throw around? I know there are probably some people here that aren't programmers that have some decent ideas and also some programs that are out of ideas!
If you do make something with somebodies idea it might be nice to throw their username into the About box or whatever too.
Anyway... I'm already off-topic in my own thread...
I've been keeping a list of programs that I think would be fun to code. None of them are particularly useful but I think they're good projects. Right now I run two screens (20" Intel iMac and 20" Dell screen) so most of my ideas use two screens in a fun way.
Wallpaper changer
Apple's built in wallpaper changer will change wallpapers for you but currently as far as I know there is no way to have the 2 screens change at the same time to their correct images. A decent amount of people with two screens have a left and right image and like to give the effect of them being one image. I thought a program to change both the left and the right image at the same time at random so long as the left and right were randomly their counterparts would be a fun little program that people could use.
Man In A Video Game Screensaver
This idea was spurred about by wondering how I could utilize both screens as an entertaining screen saver. My current screen layout is the left screen is 1050x1680 and my right screen is 1680x1050. The right screen is centered to the left screen as I'm trying to show below.
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|___|My thought was to have a stick figure in the bottom of the left screen with the screen boundaries being walls and ceilings and floors. As he is standing there waiting a Tetris game starts playing on the left screen (A.I.!) and he realizes he needs to avoid the falling blocks. He avoids them and starts climbing up them as he can. Once he gets high enough he sees nothing is going on on the right screen and can walk over to that screen. Once he gets over there though another game of some sort starts and he attempts to stay alive there... maybe he returns back to the left side? Who knows? Not really sure where to take it from there though.
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Anyway... those are two ideas I've had. Anybody else have some interesting ideas they want to throw around? I know there are probably some people here that aren't programmers that have some decent ideas and also some programs that are out of ideas!
If you do make something with somebodies idea it might be nice to throw their username into the About box or whatever too.
