Programming Project for Class Ideas?

[Bulldog13]

Good morning!

I am taking a software engineering class "Foundations of Software Engineering" and one of the aspects of the course is the group project, which involves requirements gathering, documentation (UML BARF), and coding a program (includes unit tests).

We need to come up with an idea for our program and I was hoping you guys could offer some ideas. It will be written in .Net, probably ASP, but maybe FAT.

The professor posted some previous program ideas:

Sample Project 1:
Develop a Web‐based file sharing system, and the primary functions of the system are list in the following (but not limited to these functions...):

Sample Project 2:
Develop a Restaurant Information Management system for Mike’s Café, which is a small café on the campus of college UEC. The basic functions of the system include...:


So I am looking for program idea suggestions, of the previously listed caliber. I have been doing .Net coding for the last 3 years (my experience level).

My goal here is to not undershoot it, LETS WRITE TIC-TOE GUYS, but more importantly not overshoot it, LETS WRITE A 3D GAME ENGINE GUYS and have to make a mad dash to finish coding it by the end.

Thoughts?

 

[Ka0t1x]

Restaurant IS shouldn't be too bad.

 

[Cogman]

How is your team? Over/under shooting is going to really depend on the capability of your group.

You could do something like a simple music management system. It would be similar to the store management system. However, a 3d game may not be out of reach if you have a skilled team. If they are a bunch of code monkeys, then yeah, I would stick with the minimum.

 

[bobross419]

Ticketing system for an internal help desk?

Would need things like - Customer Records, Individual Work Orders, Inventory, Report Generation.

Probably a lot of database stuff. Judging from the examples I'd gear it towards being used by the school's own helpdesk staff. Maybe even try and talk to one of them to see what they would want in a ticket management system.

 

[jamesmcuk]

Hmmmm how about Back Office Hotel Reservation system with online customer accessible web front end that updates the back office of a national hotel chain with local offers and events per online booking.

 

[sourceninja]

A technical support center ticket system is a great idea. They can scale in design from very simple to crazy complex to meet any needs you might require for the project, and the backend database structure fits well in any format (sqlite, flat file, mysql, etc)

 

[Bulldog13]

Ticketing system for an internal help desk?

Would need things like - Customer Records, Individual Work Orders, Inventory, Report Generation.

Probably a lot of database stuff. Judging from the examples I'd gear it towards being used by the school's own helpdesk staff. Maybe even try and talk to one of them to see what they would want in a ticket management system.

Brilliant idea!

I'll float this one to my group. I like how it scales well in complexity in either direction and the fact anyone in IT has dealt with this system at some point.

Thanks for your input everyone!