Foreword:

I wrote these pages when I was 16 and applying for undergraduate Computer Science at various universities. I linked to it in all my applications but only one of the interviewers (York Universtity) actually looked at it. We had a nice discussion, I recall, but I can't remember what about. He offered me a place but I eventualy decided to go to Warwick instead.

Having recently found a copy of these pages on an old backup cd, I've decided to put them back on the web (mostly for reasons of nostalgia). Perhaps others might also find it amusing to see how I wasted my childhood. Be warned, however. I haven't changed any of the following pages since they were written nearly 10 years ago, and thus there may be strong evidence of childishness.

Spark’s Rushed Webby

This website has grown from the sudden need for me (David Cunningham) to put some of my old programming stuff online for anyone to see.

There are quite a large number of programs here, so I have summarised them in the following table. Click on the name of a program for more information, screen shots and other information where available.

I find it disturbing how badly I used to code. If you see code that isn't tabbed or variables haven't been declared then take account of the age of the program before you hold it against me. :)

To run the executables for this, you will need the Visual Basic Runtime Libaries. I have the setup .exe available here.

Name	Mathematical	Practical	How long ago I wrote it	Language	Description

Java maths thing			A few weeks ago	Java	This is a java class that takes a mathematical expression such as ln(e^(2+1)) and evaluates it to a double float value.
IRC Bot			Right now!	Java	When it's finished, this will be an IRC bot that will perform simple channel services

Rocket			1 year	Visual Basic	Game: A lunar lander program that was originally destined to be my A-Level computing project until I decided I would get more marks for a database.
WINDuel			3 years -> 6 months	Visual Basic	Game: It started a huge craze at school, to the point where I was asked to put in code that would prevent it from being run during lesson times…
Demolition			2 years	Visual Basic	Game: It’s a turn based strategy game like C&C and the like. Its not very playable, games can last for hours and are very boring.
Shooting Targets			A few months	Visual Basic	This I designed for a local shooting club. It takes a scanned in 'target' and identifies where the holes are in it.
Word Scramble			About a year	Visual Basic & Java	Lists all the permutations of a word. You can then search this list for a string of characters. This was for A-Level statistics.
dde			About a year	Visual Basic	This allows me to do 'big text' spams on mIRC.
Pictogram			2 years	Visual Basic	Program I made to satisfy my Mother's Primary School ICT requirements.
Adjs			2 years	Visual Basic
Screen Saver			2 years	Visual Basic	A screen saver I made for the school to run on their network.

3D			Less than a year	Visual Basic	My attempt at a 3D engine, after learning about 3d vectors in Further Maths. All totally software, no OpenGL cheating!
WarFTPProg			Less than a year	Visual Basic	Simply gets information from my FTP Server about access priorities for all the users and displays the information on a chart.
LandscapeGen			1 or 2 years	Visual Basic	I tried to generate 3d landscapes, but failed.
Pingo			1 year	Visual Basic	Game: I liked the java version of this so I wrote it myself in VB.
BPM			2 years	Visual Basic	The user taps out the beat of a song with the space bar, and the program calculates the 'beats per minute' of the song.
HSL			2 years	Visual Basic	This is me working out how to translate a colour as a 32bit integer into Hue, Saturation and Luminance components.
Art			2 years	Visual Basic	This is me messing around with particles leaving a random trail; leaving pretty colourful patterns.
QuakeNam			2 or 3 years	Visual Basic	Program to make colourful 'Quake names' using the >128 characters
PalEdit			3 years	Visual Basic	Program to edit Paint Shop Pro .pal (palette) files.
kleab			3 years	Visual Basic	Level editor for the 'Kye' game
QES			3 or 4 years	Visual Basic	Quadratic Equation solver - for doing 3rd form maths questions quicker.

RPG			Ages ago	Visual Basic	All useless little games I made when I knew no better. Note the DOS 8 letter capital names :)
MATCH			Ages ago	Visual Basic
DUNGEON			Ages ago	Visual Basic
ICEBERG			Ages ago	Visual Basic
GREED			Ages ago	Visual Basic

modBasic.bas	varies	varies	Last updated less than a month ago	Visual Basic	I found I was using the same functions over and over again in my programs so I put them in here.
mod3d.bas			Last updated less than a month ago	Visual Basic	These are structures and functions I used for handling vectors in the 3D project mentioned above.