Software Engineering undergraduate project ideas

Question

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So I read all of them and my answer wasn't fit to those.

Actually I'm looking for some ideas which

1 - Help me extend a functionality of Open source software (like creating a usefull add-in

2 - Let me Create a Scientific Paper (ideas to publish a scientific paper)

3 - Or Create a Unique an usefull application from the scratch , (like performance tool, profiler, analyzers and other similar tools)

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Update : I know C# - Asp.net and sql

I'm really interested to Unicode - Localization and working on Application standards

I also have an open source software at http://unicode.codeplex.com which actually is a simple unicode converter. Is it a good idea to extend it for a undergraduate project or not? I think it can be a good api or tool if I spend lots of time on it nad it be capable to convert any codepage to any thing.

Update v2 : I checked some ideas and find a good one

Create a UI for CruiseControl.NET which generate XML configuration files.

Is it a good one?

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So with all these conditions what do you think is better to do? let me know your ideas whatever those are.

any idea appriciated.

Answer 1

1. I would go for singularity project, but i don't think that's a good idea so a better one would be a NHibernate Designer.
2. Lambda Calculus applications in algorithms, and implementation in modern languages.
3. There is a need for such tool, like Il optimizer mono guys want to write such tool, there was a blog post somewhere, but you need to know IL.

for 3 I can tell you that dumping br.s out of every function before ret will speed things up a lot.

Answer 2

1 & 3: The world desperately needs a good statement-count profiler for C99 in the style of the bprint profiler that comes with lcc. You could try extending tcc or gcc.

Answer 3

Based on your experience I'd say it might be useful to start working on web application projects in #develop. Not really a full designer for an undergraduate but full support for other stuff might be useful.