what to do????????

[Kaimonington]

I want to make another programme, but I have NO IDEAS!!!! I am only a few weeks into visual basic, so cannot do anything too complicated, I can do variables and arrays and controls and lots of basic things, but no APIs. How do people think of ideas for Programmes?

[Hack]

Mine come to me in my inbox.

Do you have music CDs or something like that?

Build yourself an inventory system for them.

[aikidokid]

I had the same problem so I decided to make a Code Library, or Code bank.
You are making something that will be of use to you straight away.

Take a look at the link in my signature.

[drivenbywhat]

Some projects that you can try when learning vb are the following:

html editor
web browser
media player
IM program (really cool)
simple game like hangman
notepad with better features

After you make them, you can then try to improve on them by adding better features and maybe making the code better.

[Campion]

My first real project? A robot for handling guard duty, player information, and administrative odds and ends for a game I play. And, after picking it back up after a 2 year hiatus, I've done quite a bit with it, including switching from Access to mySQL via ODBC. So far, in the last 5 months, I've made a better front-end, and cleaned out, and vastly improved the backend—literally doubling the lines of code in the process.

A side project goes with this, where authorized users can log into it and control it remotely (It IS a robot, after all.)

[aikidokid]

notepad with better features

I did one of these and it was a good way to learn a lot of basic, and not so basic things fast.

A good idea to start with.

[garjanis]

Well.. my dream is to create an irc bot , no, a superbot!

[03myersd]

When I first started out on VB (still very much a beginner) I did much smaller projects that would focus on you learning specific parts of VB. My very first program was to calculate the volume of a cuboid. Probably well below where you are at now. I agree with the hangman one though. Its something I did quite recently and it actually increased my skills greatly.

Something else I did was take in a list of words and then enter another word into a text box. If there was a word in the list that contained no letters that were in the word in the text box then it would display that word.

Thought it worth mentioning...

[penagate]

Moved from Classic Visual Basic

[szlamany]

Mine come to me in my inbox.

[wossname]

Why don't you do something worthwhile instead of CD inventories and IRC, both of which have been done to death more times than the number of elementary particles in the visible universe.

May I suggest a snake game as an alternative :roflKipper: