I need a programming project to do

I've had some bigger ideas recently for programming things, they've all turned out too hard and it's making me feel worthless and incapable

so I need small achievable things to do which will help boost my confidence and work as programming practice. It's really hard to decide what to do though - can you help?

I've had this problem too. If you can give some more details of what your projects have been that you could not do, as well as the types of things you are interested in doing, and what has made these things "too hard" for you, I can give you some help.

C++11 compiler.

fibs

>>1
write a small game for the sega genesis.
tetris, or breakout or something like that

there's a development kit available that makes it pretty simple
https://code.google.com/p/sgdk/ (windows)
http://code.google.com/p/gendev/ (linux/mac)

things that were too big/difficult to finish: gameboy emulator, syntax based source code editor, gui toolkit, web replacement, ive forgotten what else

Teledildonics gateway.

Write a collaborative painting website where the paintbrush is defined by a function in some Lisp dialect.

* Start by writing a simple HTTP proxy using golang, simply make it log all requested URL's to stdout. Pipe this into a log for further analysis. Take control over your life. Configure your browser(s) to use it and ensure it's always running. From now on you decide what's coming in.

* Next add support to filter out requests. Ensure you can easily reuse popular filters (adblock style, /etc/hosts style, ...). Block all facebook related crap.

* Next add support for a "bypass" mode, URLs which end in :bp (or have a referrer which ends in :bp) should not be blocked.

* Next add support for injecting JavaScript into pages. Keep going, get more control.

>>9
That made me ill. Fuck HN.

>>10
Just switch le gonads to common lisp.

>>11

gonads

Nice one. I think I'll use that.