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Create a COM client (with early binding) (particularly with GCC/MinGW) (if possible under Winelib in linux is also interesting)
Provide a SOAP server function

Task level

Database / Network

Simple DB connection and queries.
Certificate-authenticated SSL
Secure Socket Layer

Mathematics and algorithms

Monte-carlo simulations

The Wikipedia article has a good example which calculates the value of Pi. --Short Circuit 23:43, 16 February 2008 (MST)

Iterating over elements in a collection

See: Loop Structures... I know at least the Java category has a Collections example --mwn3d 23:36, 9 November 2007 (EST)

Variable-length Collection-type-specific examples (Java collections, C++/STL container classes, functional lists, etc.) would be worthwhile. --Short Circuit 22:28, 6 December 2007 (MST)

Closures
Monads

The page is created, but there are not examples yet. --Mwn3d 12:42, 5 February 2008 (MST)

SAX. As well as DOM and XPath it would probably be useful to demonstrate parsing a simple XML document with SAX.
Find all the roots for a given function within a given a range and, possibly, a step width.
Sum a finite series
Sum an infinite series

System

Copy a directory tree recursively
- On a local filesystem
- With an option to specify files or folder to exclude

Syntax

Comparison methods and operators

Could this be added to Comparing two integers? --Mwn3d 07:28, 21 December 2007 (MST)

Project level

Super Simple p2p network

Could be done with FIFOs for streams, and a constant number of clients. Needs to be more specific regarding what it does. --Short Circuit 22:28, 6 December 2007 (MST)

Writing a parser to parse structured text into appropriate native types. (A good demonstration format to parse might be JSON, though it should be about creating a parser rather handling JSON.)
[non-trivial] implement a table-based native code (macro?) assembler in various HLLs

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Merge sort Merge sort --Mwn3d 12:12, 15 February 2008 (MST)
Create a new thread and execute it Simple concurrent actions or Fork Process--Mwn3d 09:53, 17 February 2008 (MST)

Forking is not the same as creating a new thread. --Short Circuit 22:48, 17 February 2008 (MST)

Detect a division-by-zero error without checking the divisor prior to dividing. Divide by Zero Detection --Mwn3d 12:08, 17 February 2008 (MST)

On hold

Sounds Like Homework

These tasks may be interesting, but seem likely to be someone's homework. They should be put off until the end of the next regular semester.

doubly-linked list algorithms, both cursor- and pointer-based implementations

This could be approached some time in May --Short Circuit 23:43, 16 February 2008 (MST)

Discuss

Querying devices for certain SNMP values and output reponses to .html or .txt-file.
- Used for:
  - generating webpage where helpdesk can view the VLAN of a user-port
  - querying forwarding database of switch / ARP-table of router
- Can be extended:
  - with config file for: device list, SNMP-values to interrogate, SNMP community strings, ...
  - support for SNMPv3
  - generating history reports: what mac-address has been on this port, when has a change been made, ...
- Wanted to do this myself for a long time already using Python or Ruby, but not making a lot of progress. Any help or suggestion would be welcome.

This should probably be split into Query SNMP server and Retrieve configuration setting (for an application, not the SNMP server). There are already tasks for outputting to a file.

Win interface... C++ calls to Fortran F90/95 Source Code ... and back...

This should be as trivial as Call function in shared library, if the Fortran code has been compiled into a shared library. (Regardless of OS) --Short Circuit 23:43, 16 February 2008 (MST)

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 * Merge sort [[Merge sort]] --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 12:12, 15 February 2008 (MST)
 * Create a new thread and execute it [[Simple concurrent actions]] or [[Fork Process]]--[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 09:53, 17 February 2008 (MST)
+: Forking is not the same as creating a new thread. --[[User:Short Circuit|Short Circuit]] 22:48, 17 February 2008 (MST)
 * Detect a division-by-zero error without checking the divisor prior to dividing. [[Divide by Zero Detection]] --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 12:08, 17 February 2008 (MST)
 =On hold=
 ==Sounds Like Homework==