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That's nice but I think most people can afford to waste the 1.9 seconds it takes to open a google window. That would probably be nice for someone without working hands like Dr. Stephen Hawking though. Unfortunately, anyone that would need that to be done for them will most likely need you to release an .exe for it. If they could compile it themselves they could write it themselves.
Good point.
I did this instead of doing
/r/dailyprogrammerI love dailyprogrammer. It's the only good thing on reddit. It looks like you have a lot of fun coding. I did too when I was younger.
Here's a little challenge for you. For the hell of it and because almost the entire world uses Windows GUI make a windows program out of it. Change the application window title bar name to "Bitcoin Price" instead of the default "MainWindow". Give it minimize, maximize buttons and an owned dialog box with "Ok, Remove or cancel" buttons and dialog that asks something like, "are you tired of seeing the price" "click 'OK' to close for now, 'Remove' to stop the automatic loading at windows start, or 'cancel'.
In the main window place a little calculator that takes any entered btc amount and automatically calculates that by the retreved current Bitcoin price so the user can see how much btc they own in dollars. Make a combo box drop-down somewhere below the Calc with a preloaded list that allows a user to select between multiple sources for the available Bitcoin price (in case eventually one stops being available). Go ahead and compile an .exe for it and code the installation to create a new string value in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] that points to your .exe location in C:/Program Files (x86). Don't forget to set the "Remove" button in your dialog box to take out the string value in the registry.
Start a thread here and on Reddit posting your little proggie asking for donations. Make sure to release the source with the .exe. I bet you can easily pick up some coin with it.
