project-ideas

To Which Open Source Projects Do You Contribute?

Are you regularly contributing to any open source projects? Which ones? How many contributions have you made? What attracted you to them? ...

Interesting compiler projects

I'm currently in the process of choosing a project for a grad-level compiler course to be done over the next 8 weeks. I'd like to do something related to optimization since I haven't worked much in that area before, but anything in the field is fair game. What was the most interesting compiler-related project you've done? What did you ...

Does anyone know of anyone working on a LINQ-to-Memcached provider?

As title. I didn't find one via google, at any rate. Update: thanks for the links from the two answers; this is very useful, but not what I was after - I am curious to see whether it is possible to query an IRepository backed by memcached (or some other distributed cache), backed by a RDBMS. I've really no idea how that might work in ...

Best Open Source MVC PHP project to study

Hello, Do you know some good Open Source project written in PHP that is a finest example of MVC and is just the best example to learn how to write a state of art project? kind regards, ...

Your first serious programming project

As programmers, what was your first personal (not professional), serious, programming project? In which language was it written? Did it came to an end? Made it community wiki after advice. ...

What are some interesting projects to solve in Erlang for learning purposes?

I recently discovered Erlang and am now working my way through a couple of tutorials. By now I'm looking forward to actually implement something as a hobby project. I'm not really interested in yet another chat server. I would like to code something more interesting (yes I'm aware that this is a rather fuzzy term) which is also manageabl...

What is a good open source C# project for me to get involved in?

Hey guys, I am a 2nd year university student on winter break and I am currently learning c# by myself right now. I really learn by writing code (like the rest of us i assume) and I would love to contribute to an open source project using c#. I was really wondering where to start... I've been doing some googling and I have checked sourcef...

Searching for a school project that will blow away my teachers

Hey guys, for my ABITUR which is the end exam of highschool in germany I want to do a project with my friend. We are both pretty good at programming (and have our own company) and have about 9 months to finish the project (after school so mostly saturdays and sundays) we want to build something that will blow our teachers away but don't...

Open Source Project Suggestion, where to go from here.

I have a project in mind, here's the pitch. When I come to a new workspace, school, a friends computer and want to check all my favorite blogs, log into facebook, SO and all other amazing websites. I find that it's always a site that i forget to visit. The solution to this is to bookmark the site. However, should I always store the book...

Looking for a good semester project (probably in java)

Hey, I'm currently taking a class on software development. The main aspect of the class is going through the development cycle on a fairly complex project. This project has to be complex enough to take 4 people a semester to do. I was wondering if anyone had some good ideas. I'll list two ideas we had below. A multithreaded client/ser...

What's a good medium/large project for a Python programmer?

Just like the title asks. I've been learning Python for a while now and I'd say I'm pretty decent with it. I'm looking for a medium or large project to keep me busy for quite a while. Your suggestions are greatly appreciated. ...

Educational project ideas

I really need any programming project idea to implement (any language) that fits as an educational project. I'm the leader of a small programming team in a community aiming at teaching, so I need to use this project as a way of teaching them different stuff about programming and different techniques. But I can't think of any project tha...

What is your idea for a good AI project for a group of undergraduates?

There are two courses: "AI" and "AI in Games" both 15 students for 15 weeks. I want to keep them motivated and creative. I know I want some kind of competition (obvious for the latter course). Maybe something like Marathon Match or ICFP. I will need good visualization, so it would be great if it already exist. One idea was to write AI f...

Quick project ideas

I'm interested in making some webapps or small applications that can be completed in an hour or so. I've made an image host, web availability checker and url shortners lately but fancy making another quick wee tool or service. Any suggestions? Heres the ongoing list: Image hosting website URL Shortening Service website utilising the...

Ideas for Summer Java project

Hi I'm taking an independent project during the summer at school. The prof. told me to come up with a good topic or a good project. He likes doing GUI in Java and I like the same too. So I was thinking a on doing a project in Java instead of doing research. He told me to present to him a good topic and explain what I am planning on do...

Senior project ideas for a CS major

I'm a rising senior studying CS. I'm going to be taking the Senior Project course at my university. I already have a couple of ideas, but was curious to hear about ideas from others. I'm kinda leaning towards something systems related (operaing, distributed, web app, whatever), but I'm also interested in programming language theory and ...

Xml serialization library for iPhone Apps

Apple provides the NSArchiver and NSUnachriver for object serialization / deserialization, but this can not handle any custom xml schema. So filling an object structure with the data of any custom xml schema has to be made manually. Since the iPhone developer community is rapidly growing, a lot of newbie programmer are despairing to deal...

What are the websites to look for open source projects to work on?

I am currently working as a consultant but i found that i have not been doing coding for a very long time. So i wonder if there are any other nice websites beside sourceforge.net which can allows me to do some coding. Thanks ...

ideas for graphic based projects using GPUs?

Hi, I'm a CS undergrad student and wanted to finalize my project idea soon.I am mostly interested in graphics based projects which work with help of GPUs like GPGPUS (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU) or actual graphic processing using GPUs.My supervisor suggested me to look for topics related to parallel computing like in GPGPUs a...

Want to write an eBook collection manager in Python. What do I need to learn?

Hello everyone, I have been teaching myself the rudiments of Python and have reached a stage where I would like to tackle a project of increasing complexity in order to "scratch an itch". I have a large eBook collection (several gigabytes, organized in folders according to topic, mostly .pdf files with the occasional .djvu, .html, and ...