Can you suggest a topic for my Senior Project? Programming

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Hello everyone, I am having some difficulties figuring myself a topic for my Senior Project this semester, really desperate I am right now.

Currently I am a 4th year student course of Bachelor Science of Information Technology and will be graduating this October, wishfully that is.

I came here because I know people here have bright ideas :D, please help me out to come up with a good Senior Project Proposal. Currently I'm thinking about School System for a new private school here in my town. But How would I do that? Point me out please :)

Posted 1-Jun-11 17:32pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-01T17:53:00

Solution 2

Well, do you have a hobby?

Anything outside software development but related to just the use of computers? Music? Fine Arts? Crafts? Sports? Video? Photography? Collectibles (and hence, some photography)? Literature? Playing with kids, teaching them? Do you learn Industrial Design? Drawing? Music? Musical theory? History? Would like to have some computer-assisted learning tools? What kind of new software tool would you enjoy yourself?

Besides, if your passion is software development itself, think about some annoying works you had to do? Would you like to have some tools which would make your work better, faster, less boring and more creative?

Many people shared the experience that the only really good kind of software is something that people did for themselves. Developers and their clients always misunderstood each other and created something that they would not gladly use and not what their customers really wanted.

This is not the case when a software developer creates something that she or he really likes and wants to use.

Hope it will help you to search in right direction.

—SA

Posted 1-Jun-11 17:53pm

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

Updated 1-Jun-11 18:09pm

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Albert Holguin 1-Jun-11 23:57pm

if i only had enough hours in a day I would develop all sorts of fun new toys! ...my 5

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Jun-11 0:04am

Thank you very much, Albert.
That's the point. Having a school project, OP got a great chance to get a school credit for something he would enjoy.

I never had enough time for that, but I developed a good number of tools for my own consumption. Some of them are productivity tools I enjoy at work and offer to colleagues, but some are for hobby. I wish I could do more. I always have more plans than time for the fulfillment.
--SA

thatraja 2-Jun-11 10:46am

Agree, Nice explanation. My 5! too.
/*Some of them are productivity tools I enjoy at work and offer to colleagues*/
Please share some with me if possible :)

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Jun-11 13:30pm

I do have plants, not enough time. I have more plans than time as I say. I barely completed my recent article I procrastinated for a long time, was working on it very slowly.
Want to see? Pretty interesting code I think.
This is the very recent one, of May 30, 1011, "Dynamic method dispatcher". Please see.
--SA

[no name] 2-Jun-11 0:13am

my five for some thing interesting

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Jun-11 0:21am

Thank you Santosh.
--SA

mrpotatohead 2-Jun-11 3:54am

well I love playing guitar I was thinking about that haha but what would I do with that? I can't relate myself. Its like every program I am thinking of has already been created.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Jun-11 4:25am

I'm not sure. I can confess, I'm playing guitar, too, as an amateur, but for a long time and pretty seriously. I while ago started writing code for building/analyzing chords and other musical calculus, with output of sounds, have done some code for comma between well-tempered and natural (harmonic) intervals... very interesting... No, there are many problems without solutions which you could find on the Web. I don't really understand your problem -- I have much more unsolved problems then time for doing work.
--SA

Albert Holguin 2-Jun-11 20:03pm

if you like guitar... how about a recording tool for your pc? the actual guitar capture process should be relatively simple (somewhat) but after that, you can go crazy with the results.. add effect, mixing, equalization... audio processing is a neat field

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Jun-11 22:28pm

Only remotely interested. I play classical guitar and train myself only for life sound and performance. Also, good quality record needs too much equipment. I've been recorded in studio to feel the difference :-). From the other hand, when it comes to electronic processing, I would rather prefer purely synthetic stuff. It's more realistic, technically (just a computer), but I only started to experiment a while ago, did not do anything essential. Customary electronic studio software get a dead way of imitating traditional cycle of creation of music; it also does not look interesting to me.
--SA

Monjurul Habib 25-Dec-11 16:02pm

5!

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 25-Dec-11 16:04pm

Thank you, Monjurul.
--SA

thatraja · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-01T18:09:00

Solution 3

Pick anything from this(if possible & you are interested)
50 Great Project Ideas[^]

or wait for other answers

Posted 1-Jun-11 18:09pm

thatraja

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[no name] 2-Jun-11 0:13am

my 5++

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Jun-11 0:23am

Interesting link, my 5. As to the real project ideas, the best is the one created by the developer himself.
--SA

mrpotatohead 2-Jun-11 3:52am

I will check this out...looks cool thank you :D

mrpotatohead 2-Jun-11 10:00am

right now I'm thinking about of just making a Municipal Budget Management System :D Ain't that good?

thatraja 2-Jun-11 10:10am

Choice is yours.
But my suggestion is your project must be different from other's. And it should be a challenging one. So that you can learn many new things while working with that. Hope my answer may help you.

All the best for you.
:)

Monjurul Habib 25-Dec-11 16:02pm

5!

Albert Holguin · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-01T17:42:00

Solution 1

Well Mr.Potato Head, or should I just call you Potato? ...anyway... don't know exactly what you mean by school system, but I'll assume grade/class tracker, I've seen the grade trackers that they use at schools, they're pretty crappy yet complex systems.

You have to consider a lot of things:
-What type of DB will you store this too?
-How will the DB be secured? ...as you might be able to guess, those crafty kids would want to change grades if they could.
-Where and how will you backup DB?
-How will the system be tied together? Server-client?
-How will the server be accessed remotely? TCP/IP? SSH?
-How will you authenticate users to your server?
-What type of client will be used? Application? Web based?

Posted 1-Jun-11 17:42pm

Albert Holguin

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 1-Jun-11 23:55pm

Aah, technical stuff... make sense anyway, my 5.
Look at my advice though -- quite a different approach. What would you say?
--SA

[no name] 2-Jun-11 0:16am

What is solution then!!
my 5++

Albert Holguin 2-Jun-11 0:17am

lol, stop following me!

[no name] 2-Jun-11 0:19am

I'm not but can you take chalange to solved it.
becouse true porgrammer do so!

[no name] 2-Jun-11 0:25am

And yes don't get points by answering dump question!

Albert Holguin 2-Jun-11 0:33am

dump question? ::headscratch::

[no name] 2-Jun-11 0:36am

What is that?

mrpotatohead 2-Jun-11 3:51am

what the heck is 5++? or my 5? huh?.....anyway I think grade/class tracker is too simple or is it? lol I don't know but I will try that as my proposal to my school hmmmm... I was thinking of enrollment and stuffs like that, or multi in one kinda software. I'm lost

Albert Holguin 2-Jun-11 20:00pm

"my 5" ...that's what people usually say when they give you some rating for the solution (or message)...

Albert Holguin 2-Jun-11 20:01pm

The school stuff can be made simple, but the actual practical systems are pretty complex underneath the hood... anyway, pick something you find interesting and take a swing at it...

Monjurul Habib 25-Dec-11 16:02pm

5!