project-ideas

Any good ideas for Visual Studio 2010 related projects for an internship?

Hi everybody. I have an internship coming up in February where I will work with Visual Studio ALM (TS) 2010. My company tutor let me be free in choosing what I would like to work on with Visual Studio ALM...it kind of has to be something new, interesting and which will have a benefit for the company. I'm not very familiar with VS ALM 2...

What are some good projects to make for a newbie Python (but not new to programming) developer?

I'm downloading Python 3.1.1 and that comes with the IDLE correct? I'm also downloading QT for Windows which I'm told is a good GUI framework to work with Python. What projects should I try to make in order to grasp some of the goodies Python brings to the table? Thanks a bunch SO. ...

Where can I use my programming knowledge?

I know most of the basics and can figure out most things on my own. . . but where can I use this knowledge? I want projects to work on or contribute to. I have things I do at work but I want something I can really sink my "teeth" into. ...

Student Project Ideas: Parallel Computing

I've been given a free choice of final project for my software development course, I'm quite interested in attempting a distributed programming task, My initial thought was to create a simple photon scattering renderer but I don't think I'd get far past rendering platonic solids and metaballs. Any suggestions, or interesting areas I mig...

Interesting projects/problems/challenges to work on?

Being a "true" developer I love working on projects in my spare time. This is not necessarily to reach a particular end but just so that I can keep my skills sharp, work with the latest patterns and ideas, and see if the latest thinking on things holds up for me. I don't like just doing sample bits of code, but rather try and wrap thing...

Can you suggest some good exercises/projects from Beginner to Intermediate I should tackle for a newbie PHP programmer?

Hi guys! As always you guys help me out tremendously. :) I've finished reading Tizag's PHP tutorial and I've even written a couple of sites that use what I've learned. It's just that I feel I won't truly learn PHP and be good at it until I do a real project. I have no idea what type of project to do with PHP (I'm new to webdev). Can ...

Project Idea with Hadoop MapReduce

Hello, I learnt Hadoop a few months back and managed to do a very introductory programming project on it. I want to do a small - medium sized project or series of small programming assignments with Hadoop. I have seen lot of ideas around but I dont see anything that can be finished in about 60-70 hours of work so a pretty small scale pr...

What task can I automate in Python that's fun, simple, and useful?

I'm trying to learn Python. I'm going to eventually be using it at work, but I don't have an active project in it as of now. I've been reading through some documentation and would like to learn some basics, but I learn best when actually coding. So I'm thinking of attempting a small Python project just to sort of "get my feet wet" in Pyt...

Graduation Project on Cryptography

Hi, I have to do a graduation project: Theme: Cryptography Development time: 2 months max I am looking for creative ideas :), not simple proof of concepts ;) Thanks ...

Ideatryout: Typed Providerfactory

I've been thinking about starting a new project in C#.NET (4.0RC) for a couple of days now. The end result of the project would be a class-library consisting of what I for now call a "ProviderFactory", a couple of interfaces (or abstract classes) and a default "ProviderType" or two. First of all I might need/decide to change the naming ...

Want to start open source project. Need help in picking an idea

I have a few ideas on what I want to do. Please tell me which one I should actually follow up with and which ones are just a stupid idea. Thanks. Mouseless and python scriptable web browser: Very similar to how the Ctrl button in Konqueror and Arora allows you to quickly access a link without having to click on it, this kind of browser...

Creating a Web Wrapper for COM and OCX

Hi guys, Today we have a windows application that, using an OCX, creates a web page (visible by a WebBrowser control in a small .NET WinForm application) and communicates through COM to the main application/client. (not relevant but this is Pascal) I'm currently responsible to re create this application in a web environment so we can h...

topics in distributed systems

what do you think is an interesting topic in distributed systems. i should pic a topic and present it on monday. at first i chose to talk about Wuala, but after reading about it, i don't think its that interesting. so what is an interesting (new) topic in distributed systems that i can research about. sorry if this is the wrong place to ...

A Project idea which fits with Sun Certified Java Programmer (SCJP) preparation?

I'm currently preparing for the SCJP, which I plan to take in 6 months time. I was wondering weather you could give me any Java Project Ideas which ONLY involves Java (NOT JEE), which includes manipulating Object or includes certain concepts which'd appear in the SCJP Exam, to further strengthen my understanding of basic Java. Better be...

Java projects without swing

I'm quite familiar with Java and I would like to work on a project on my free time but for some reason, I just hate having to work with Java GUIs. I'm wondering what kind of Java technologies are available out there that I can use for starting a non-GUI project. Thank you. ...

"Low level" project using Java

I'm wondering if it would make sense to do some low level or OS stuff(a project) using Java. Reason why I ask is because I would like to expand my knowledge in Java and I'm into doing stuff like file compressor, bulk file renamer, etc. Are there any examples out there that I can look at or play with? Or should I just be using C or C++ in...

Ideas for networking project

Hi all, I'm a graduating senior in computer science taking a computer networks class and I'm trying to figure out my final project. I normally am not at a loss for ideas but be it senioritis or straight burn out, I've got nothing. I've done some fun stuff in the past, but I just can't seem to come up with a good idea. Given the mass ...

Ideas for a PHP Summer Project

Each student in my school, has to develop a Technology Summer Project. I was thinking in doing something in PHP, using MySQL databases, and something that has some utility for the real life. I'm an advanced PHP developer (not an expert one :). The project has to follow that rules: It's in PHP It's a front-end and a backend Has to be so...

Natural language processing - Ideas for beginner's projects

Hi guys, I am a beginner in NLP and NLTK. I am very interested in NLP and hence joined a weekend course on AI in some local institution, which requires me to do a project for completion of the course, and I decided to do it in NLP. The problem is,the instructor is not good at all for this course (According to me she is just a charlatan)...

What is a good project to learn OpenCL?

A friend of mine, who studies game development at an university, is currently learning programming in OpenCL. What would be a simple project that teaches the most important aspects of OpenCL and can be finished within about 50 - 100 hours? ...