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Need ideas / suggestions for a senior project

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NTB

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Just got the syllabus for my senior project seminar, and I'm looking around for some ideas. Any suggestions? Here's what the syllabus says:

Course Objective:

The objective of the course is to consolidate the knowledge learned during the undergraduate studies here at ___ . In particular, all students will practice designing and organizing a project by using programming skills and theory. By the end of the semester, students should have the basic experience and necessary analysis ability for algortih and project development.

Course requirements:

Students are expected to design a plan for a project, and then work out all the details of the planned project. Finally, the project will be presented in class. The prject must have real-world application value, must use Java or C++, must have a (graphical) user interface, and must have at least three different types of graphical view of the data.
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Sorry if that sounds a little butchered; I tried to clean it up. English is not the professor's first language 🙂

Anyway, that is about all I've got. I'm going to drop him an e-mail with a couple of questions I thought up as I was driving home from class today as soon as I get done with this post. I will probably be using Java to do this project, since it requires a GUI; I haven't learned squat about handling graphics - OpenGL or DirectX, though I have played with simple SDL a bit - in any of my C++ classes.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated; I'm not looking for someone to spell out the entire project for me - just something to help get me started.

Nate
 
For my senior project I did a media player application - the complexity really depends on which part you want to concentrate on - you can find some relatively high level classes for playing media - or you can start basically from the ground up.

I focused most of my time on playlist features (sorting - classifying similiar music - and so forth) - overall, I enjoyed the project.

You may look into integrating databases into your project somehow - you can learn a lot by doing that - price lookups from some central database - cross referencing (which products are related to which) and so forth. I did this in the player application to search through various databases based on the ID3 info. Good luck - enjoy!



Good luck finding your project!
 
Holy crap. I love computers, I love math, and I love money. Sounds like a good enough reason for me to do P vs NP for my senior project next year (I'm a junior, Software Engineer major). I'll solve it, get a million bucks, and make an A, and have fun while doing it.

At least I can shoot for it. Always good to set extremely high goals. 😉
 
Originally posted by: tkdkid
Originally posted by: NTB
I will probably be using Java to do this project, since it requires a GUI.
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😕
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What? all we learned in the C++ courses was basic programming - using the CLI as the interface. I have the semester to plan and complete this project, in addition to a couple of other courses. I'd love to have the time to learn to do graphics using C++ but that would, for all intents and purposes, add yet another class on top of what I've already got. At least in Java, I've got *some* experience with GUIs to build on.

Nate
 
Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
and must have at least three different types of graphical view of the data.
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Why? 😕 Seems like they're making it too specific.
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Its probably to force, as part of the design, a separation of the data storage classes with the display classes. Basically making you come with with a basic API and then creating a few example GUIs that utilize it.
 
Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
and must have at least three different types of graphical view of the data.
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Why? 😕 Seems like they're making it too specific.
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I agree. I had a couple of ideas (a game for one, and a few others) but that kind of screwed them up 🙁

Nate
 
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