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I did many times, One day in computer lab, i wrote a program(i hope it close to virus program[fake cricket game] which have features like Shutdown, restart, System hang, alarms, etc.,)  in VB 6 for confusing my friends & i succeeded[but i was trapped by lectures one day ]. Then i was created lot of small games, many screen savers, lan chat program, Address book, Movie collector, etc., for me. Till date I'm doing fun with programming i never stop it. Even My desktop wallpaper will be change everyday by my fun program which written in JavaScript.
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When I first learned programming (BASIC, on a PDP/11) it was all fun. Hardware, which I loved too, was too expensive--a flip flop IC at Radio Shack was $3 or something--so programming was a good alternative, though not without its expenses, like getting caught skipping PE classes because I was in the "computer room." Eventually I got work doing coding on a Commodore PET and the C64, mostly 6502 assembly stuff, then we moved to the "big guys", a IBM PC with dual floppies and a 20MB hard disk, I ended up using Turbo Pascal (cool), Fortan (ugh) and 8086 assembly (cool). C seemed like an abortion of weird symbols, but I finally "got it", then moved on to C++ where I thought a base class was something that was at the foundation (bottom) of the class hierarchy. Funny how you can code an entire app with an inverted class hierarchy.
But I digress. At some point about 10 years ago, it stopped being fun because I was doing all this cool stuff in a vaccuum. Most of the fun stuff couldn't be used at work (no, I wasn't coding entertainer management systems just yet) and I got frustrated with not being able to share my stuff with others. I've always enjoyed documentation and would write the user manuals for the products at work, but I never got into writing for mags--the monthly themes were (and still are) boring and the submittal and review process was frustrating. I've never been one for changing something fun into something dull and mechanical to suit somebody else's concept of what the reader is interested in.
One day I was doing an Internet search (was Google around those days, I don't remember) on my puny little 64KB ISDN connection and stumbled across Code Project. OMG! I could submit my own articles! No middle man, peer review, etc. All of a sudden, writing code became fun again, as I could inflict my whacky ideas on anyone that was interested in reading! I could combine my love for writing with coding!
So as the subject line says, with Code Project, programming became fun again!
Marc
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I find that I code for fun at home when work stinks. I find that as we get to the end of a development cycle and we are mostly testing, I will sometimes go days only making minor code tweaks. Some days, I don't even code at all. After a week or more of this mode, I have to go home and code just to prove to myself that I remember how to do it. The I try to code something "fun". Generally my home projects are very different than my work projects, so they add a nice perspective.
My last fun project was a boggle solver. Maybe I'll turn it into an article if I get motivated enough!
Hogan
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I like the feel which attention on one things so that you forget the world is exist!!!
Coding can do it~~~
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I've designed a couple of simple puzzles and 1 or 2 games in the past. I'm trying to find the time to finish one recent puzzles (its nearly done but need to figure out the validity - testing - of the possible solutions.)
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I used to do small apps to demonstrate how to do all sorts of things - functions, code,modules, you name it. I used to email then to people on access forums who needed help. Helped the day go by and helped me if my memory failed me as i could always look back on the examples. When I was moved onto .net I am usually the one asking the questions and afraid I need the help - not much help to others now I'm afraid. I miss it though.
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it was a sudoku resolver, it's finished but not for the top level 
programming for fun is like going out for a little air, or drink a coffee.
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I have many unfinished personal programming projects i once started,
and dozens of ideas for projects i wish i had the time to delve into.
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But, I haven't in a couple years. I'd really like to, but I've prioritized other things... like investing, dancing, tanning, working out, meeting chicks, and so on.
But, I really miss OpenGL coding for fun. It gives a geek satisfaction that stuff like dancing will never do.
Jeremy Falcon
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I used to because it feels me confidence and relax
Life's Like a mirror. Smile at it & it smiles back at you.- P Pilgrim
So Smile Please
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Last last coding for fun I did was a million years ago on the C-64
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Well, by Used To, I meant back when I was in elementary school I used to (in the 70's). When it became work, that took all the fun out of it. Now I'm just a machine turning code into cash.
I swear I can hear gears grinding...
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That is fun... It turn out that is exactly the same thing for me... from the moment I code for cash it's not fun anymore.
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...but I spend most of my spare time writing code. And I know I'm going to get 1-voted for this!
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: And I know I'm going to get 1-voted for this!
There, I gave you a 5 just to piss you off!
Jeremy Falcon
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I may be in the minority here...
Ravi Bhavnani wrote: ...but I spend most of my spare time writing code. And I know I'm going to get 1-voted for this!
Not only are you not in the minority here (from the poll results), but you've got nine 5 votes so far, so you were off there too, unless this was some sort of reverse psychology ploy to gather some 5 votes 
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I've been chastised in the forums for loving what I do, so I figured the same would happen here.
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I've been chastised in the forums for loving what I do, so I figured the same would happen here.
Really? Wow - that's a WTF considering that CP's a coder's hangout! 
I am married and have a 2 year old son, and I often spend 20-30 hours on my personal coding projects during weeknights and weekends No one's ever chastised me for that, yet!
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: but I spend most of my spare time writing code
Spare time. I have none because I program 14 hours a day 7 days a week. 
Well not always..
John
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so, why are you here.
if (you write 14h, sleep 8h, eat 0.5h, use WC 0.5h, drink cofee, tea, ... 0.5h, write messages here .5h.)
{
System::Exception^ up = gcnew("you are a machine.");
return up;//it doesn't need throwing. return type is System::Exception.
}
modified on Saturday, April 17, 2010 11:35 AM
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Sleep 5. However I am not on that schedule at the moment. So its more like work 10 hours a day 5 days a week now. + some work on the weekends. And the sleep is back up to 7.
John
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I now understand because I'm Currently on that schedule, no holidays. 
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