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What is the most complex and most useless thing you've programmed?

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  • 6
    Trying to build my first OOP programs entirely on one file. Built a whole freaking calculator with it.
  • 8
    I wrote the code to find primes. I thought of ways to speed it up so I can find primes between large ranges of numbers. I was about 16 then and didn't know much about standard algorithms and internet was a luxury. I finally ended up with a pretty good algorithm and working code. Later, after a few years, I came to know that it has already been a popular algorithm, known to the world as Sieve of Eratosthenes.
  • 2
    Well our college has an erp system, meaning we could see our whole attendance along with other important stuff like calendar , notices, assignments etc up there.
    The erp's ui was extremely ugly and lagged on my very poor spec Micromax phn.
    So i tried to make my own way of tracking my attendance . And made an offline manually maintained subject wise attendance tracker.

    Its a terrible thing. The steps to get attendance fom online are simply these :
    - write the url,
    - enter name password,
    - click an ugly 'hamburger menu' icon,
    - click attendance
    -Select start date , enddate and then press enter

    But In offline mode, its
    -Add subject names on first launch
    -Mark your attendance whenever you attend or miss the lecture
    And see attendance percentage of all your subjects as well as total

    Its easier to use, but has a lot of tasks to remember: add the subjects, regularly mark attendance
    So overall a flop idea
    (But i learned a lot)
  • 4
    Used machine learning (char-rnn) to come up with a name for my project. I generated 8000 new names based on legit female names, and cross-checked them with domain availability using a script I wrote. Then, out of the remaining 3000, I chose my favourites and bought them 😛

    It came up with names like Chrissabelle, Patlie, Frodine, etc.
  • 5
    My wedding
  • 0
    CyberChecks and I am not even ready yet @xalys
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