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Copy a directory tree recursively
- On a local filesystem
- With an option to specify files or folder to exclude
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
Win interface... C++ calls to Fortran F90/95 Source Code ... and back...
Monte-carlo simulations
Recently, some complex mathematical tasks have been created on RC. Could someone add a small help page on mathematical symbols in wikiformatting? It seems that the math tags don't work very well. Things that would be nice to include would be Greek symbols and square root signs, but any other symbols would be appreciated.
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.

Task level

Retrieve bookmarks from Del.icio.us (Or anything else that demonstrates a HTTPS request with authentication)

Should be divided between HTTP-standard authentication and certificate-authenticated SSL. --Short Circuit 22:28, 6 December 2007 (MST)

Simple DB connection and queries.
Root finding
Create a new thread and execute it
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)

SAX. As well as DOM and XPath it would probably be useful to demonstrate parsing a simple XML document with SAX.
Closures
Monads
Merge sort
[hard] arbitrary precision integer and floating point math routines (these can be very instructive to new programmers)

Demonstrate use of math libraries like bignum for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, sqrt. I realize the submitter was asking for an implementation, but they can check the library source for that.--Short Circuit 22:28, 6 December 2007 (MST)

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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Sounds Like Homework

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

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Reading the file word by word using expect script