Removed more very hard, duplicate problems

Author: Karan Goel

README.md

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 **Quiz Maker** - Make an application which takes various questions form a file, picked randomly, and puts together a quiz for students. Each quiz can be different and then reads a key to grade the quizzes.
 
-**Quick Launcher** - A utility program that allows the user to assign various programs to icons on a toolbar. Then by clicking the buttons they can quickly launch the programs with parameters etc. Much like Windows quick launch.
+**File Explorer** - Create your own simple windows explorer program. Add feature(s) you always thought are missing from MS Windows Explorer or Mac Finder.
 
-**File Explorer** - Create your own windows explorer program but with added features, better searching, new icons and other views.
+**Sort Excel/CSV File Utility** - Reads a file of records, sorts them, and then writes them back to the file. Allow the user to choose various sort style and sorting based on a particular field.
 
-**Sort File Records Utility** - Reads a file of records, sorts them, and then writes them back to the file. Allow the user to choose various sort style and sorting based on a particular field.
+**Create Zip File Maker** - The user enters various files from different directories and the program zips them up into a zip file. *Optional: Apply actual compression to the files. Start with Huffman Algorithm.*
 
-**Add Transactions In File and Find Averages** - Read in a file of financial transactions, group them into accounts, add up fields or find averages or apply credits and debits to each account.
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-**Create Zip File Maker** - The user enters various files from different directories and maybe even another computer on the network and the program transfers them and zips them up into a zip file. For added complexity, apply actual compression to the files.
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-**PDF Generator** - An application which can read in a text file, html file or some other file and generates a PDF file out of it. Great for a web based service where the user uploads the file and the program returns a PDF of the file.
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-**Bulk Renamer and Organizer** - This program will take a series of files and renames them with a specific filename filter entered by the user. For instance if the user enters myimage###.jpg it will rename all files with a “minimum” of three numbers like “myimage001.jpg”, “myimage145.jpg” or even “myimage1987.jpg” since 1987 has at least three numbers.
+**PDF Generator** - An application which can read in a text file, html file or some other file and generates a PDF file out of it. Great for a web based service where the user uploads the file and the program returns a PDF of the file. *Optional: Deploy on GAE or Heroku if possible.*
 
 **Mp3 Tagger** - Modify and add ID3v1 tags to MP3 files. See if you can also add in the album art into the MP3 file’s header as well as other ID3v2 tags.
 
-**Log File Maker** - Make an application which logs various statistics in response to given events. This can be something that logs what an application does, what the system is doing, when something like a file changes etc.
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-**Excel Spreadsheet Exporter** - Create an online application which can read in a file and create an Excel Spreadsheet to export back. This can be through CVS or other file formats. For added complexity, see if you can create formula fields as well.
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-**RPG Character Stat Creator** - Make a program which will randomly create a character’s stats based on several rules set forth by the user. Have it generate a class, gender, strength/magic/dexterity points, and extra abilities or trades. Have it save it to a file which can then be printed out by a dungeon master.
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-**Image Map Generator** - Image maps are those images on the web that have multiple hover points that link to different pages. Such images may include maps or splash pages. See if you can make one where the user specifies an image, clicks hotspots in the image and specify links. It will then generate the HTML code to a file that the user can then copy and paste into their website to make the image map.
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-**File Copy Utility** - Create a utility that can do bulk file copying and backups of other files.
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-**Code Snippet Manager** - Another utility program that allows coders to put in functions, classes or other tidbits to save for use later. Organized by the type of snippet or language the coder can quickly look up code. For extra practice try adding syntax highlighting based on the language.
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-**Versioning Manager** - Create your own versioning system for code files. Users are forced to check out items and lock items during reading and writing so that a group of programmers are not accidentally overwriting code files on one another.
+**Code Snippet Manager** - Another utility program that allows coders to put in functions, classes or other tidbits to save for use later. Organized by the type of snippet or language the coder can quickly look up code. *Optional: For extra practice try adding syntax highlighting based on the language.*
 
 Databases
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@@ -204,13 +186,9 @@ Databases
 
 **Remote SQL Tool** - A utility that can execute queries on remote servers from your local computer across the Internet. It should take in a remote host, user name and password, run the query and return the results.
 
-**Baseball / Other Card Collector** - Create an online application for keeping track of a collection of cards. Let the user enter all cards in a set, check off which ones they have, which ones they need and generate lists of cards they are looking for. For extra complexity, have it sum up sets and generate reports on how close they are of completing sets or the current value of a set.
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 **Report Generator** - Create a utility that generates a report based on some tables in a database. Generates a sales reports based on the order/order details tables or sums up the days current database activity.
 
-**Database Backup Script Maker** - A program which reads a database’s objects, relationships, records and stored procedures and creates a .sql file which can then be imported into another database or kept as a backup file to rebuild the database with.
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-**Event Scheduler and Calendar** - Make an application which allows the user to enter a date and time of an event, event notes and then schedule those events on a calendar. The user can then browse the calendar or search the calendar for specific events. For added complexity, allow the application to create reoccurrence events that reoccur every day, week, month, year etc.
+**Event Scheduler and Calendar** - Make an application which allows the user to enter a date and time of an event, event notes and then schedule those events on a calendar. The user can then browse the calendar or search the calendar for specific events. For added complexity, allow the application to create re-occurrence events that reoccur every day, week, month, year etc.
 
 **Budget Tracker** - Write an application that keeps track of a household’s budget. The user can add expenses, income, and recurring costs to find out how much they are saving or losing over a period of time. For added complexity allow the user to specify a date range and see the net flow of money in and out of the house budget for that time period.