Challenge 2015-07

Text Challenge

1. Write a program to replace all occurences of a letter in a sentence with *.
2. Write a program to capitalise the first letter of every word with 4 or more characters in a sentense.
3. Write a program to reverse the characters in the longest word of a sentence.

Small Challenge

1. Write a stop-watch program.
2. Draw an animation of an egg timer.
3. Calculate the number of seconds untill your next birthday or another notable date.

Graphics Challenge

Write a program to animate a skydiver jumping from a plane, then opennig a parachute and landing.

Game Challenge

1. Write a game to control a plane in the GraphicsWindow.
   This could be the start of a flight simulator.
   It should have a power up down and some way to turn.
   Maybe you could code how to take off and land.
   Perhaps a split screen with plan and elevation views.
2. Write a simple tennis game – it is Wimbledon season.

Community Suggestion

By ProffessionalOfSmallBasic

Game Challenge – Make a Castle Destroy game like Angry Birds.

By Nonki

Calculate Napier’s constant e (the base of the natural logarithm).

By Jibba Jabba and Ezra

Solitair – Make a solitair card game, some possible stating code here DVW399 bassed on this thread ‘Solitaire Drag and Drop Prototype‘.