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Okay, so ... Have you evere been sat there. Bored. Wanting to make a fun little program but just havent got an yideas at all? I always feel like that.
Where the hell do you guys get inspiration for programs, where do you get ideas for programs to make?
From meetings and the requests that wind up in my In-BoxQuote:
Originally Posted by Ashylay
Coming from a top know it all VB expert.
What about us noobs who just want to make little snappy programs? :P
What type of interests do you have?
my main hobby is weightlifting and bodybuilding.
Ive already made a program to record the size of certain muscles etc. But ive kind of run out of ideas for that.
Do you engage in competion matches?
You said that was your "main" hobby. What other hobbies do you have?
I do a fair amount of weight training, as well, but don't have all that much time right now, so I have to make the best use of the time I have. I can spare about an hour a day for about five days a week. I started by dividing up the exercises I could do into muscle groups, and working one group each day. The problem was that I had three groups, so in five days I would get two of the groups twice, and one of the groups once. I found that my muscles got trained to the routine, and I hit a wall. Worse yet, I sometimes only got to each of the routines once a week, so a set of muscles could be worked as little as once a week, which wasn't much of a routine.
My solution was to write a program where I listed all of the routines that I had means to do. For each exercise, there is also a range of reps that I felt was reasonable. When I press the start button, the program randomly selects one exercise from the list, and randomly selects a number of reps from within the range. There is also a range for the number of exercises in the routine, so I don't know until I start the program, how many exercises I will draw on any particular day. Some of the days can be "easy", while others can be brutal. The randomness in reps and order means that I can draw the same muscle group three times in a row for high reps. Since I take no breaks between sets, except for the time it takes me to get to the PDA and back (I leave it downstairs, so I DO have something of a break), drawing the wrong sequence can leave me downright rubbery. So far, this has proven to be an ass-kicking routine that leaves me feeling pretty good, and gets me through all muscle groups in a realistically diverse fashion such that there is no learning going on.
There's an example you might consider, make a personal trainer program.
Now and then I enter small competitions with my friends.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hack
and I also enjoy football, basketball. Athletics.
A real hooby I have is creating things, Wether its a little model made out of paper or a wooden unit. Or even making something like a program on a PC. But i guess thats why i wrote this thread.
And for whoever posted before me. Sorry I forgot your name, but I already have everything I need written down on paper for that. and I have many copies too :)
Other people tell me what to make and I spend the rest of my life catching up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ashylay