Rosetta Code:Village Pump/Suggest a programming task

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• Simple hash functions and indexing algorithms.
• Regular expression matching
• Create a trivial DOM document and serialize it to xml
• Perform an XPath query on an XML Document
• Find object(s) in a structure based on matched values of their elements
• Pass a function as a parameter
• Create a generic mapping function that applys a callback to elements in a list
• Basic pointer/reference operations
• Sort an array of integers

I'd like to request the following tasks. I can provide code for Java and C++ but I'm not familiar with other programming languages in these areas.

• Socket I/O (TCP or UDP sockets)
• Creating a new thread and executing it
• Iterating over elements in a collection
• Simple DB connection and queries.

Booh 14:14, 22 January 2007 (EST)