Final Project Ideas (No Games)

[Nick]

I'm trying to think of a final project idea for my compsci class, I've already had a few, but games don't seem to interesting.
Saad suggested fractals, which seem interesting, mihaig suggested to try and hack some Runescape ripoff, less intresting but not a bad idea.
What are some of your ideas?

[btiffin]

Why the next big thing of course!
Sorry.

Is it supposed to be fun? Serious? World changing? When I was at the Computer Science Fair back in the 80's, the winner did a project that attempted to explain general relativity. He deserved to win, but we all jokingly hated him for it. My project was a relocatable debugger. Quite boring compared to an engine that graphically demonstrated the Lorentz time transformation equations and other light bending phenomenon. His project was on a very early IBM PC (which was what the prize was ... rassasfrassa)

Cheers

[syntax_error]

well it may not be original; however, I was thinking an email client of some sort?

would be a really big undertaking although

getting like POP or IMAP off a webmail sever like google wouldnt be that easy.

But if you really want something to shine, this would be a great project, imho.

Whatever you do choose good luck.

[Nick]

well it can be whatever I want, fun to do prefarably not world changing as I'm in gr 11 but prefrabbly something avoiding net commands

[btiffin]

Now a days, you are completely spoilt for choice. Geographic mapping. petree08 style physics simulators. A Unicode virtual keyboard. Spam filters. Aquarium screen savers. Alternate energy calculators. The worlds newest bestest sort algorithm. Endless. Have fun.

I guess it may come down to picking something that will interest you enough to not only finish, but to grunt through any problems that are bound to arise and frustrate.

Cheers

[md]

Avoiding networking is actually a shame, since there are so many interesting things to do.

HTTP servers, NNTP servers, IRC servers. Servers! Failing that there are always games, data analysis apps, AI problems (OCR being one). heck, you could just write a simple checkers game and try your hand at writing an AI for it.

[Nick]

hmm not a bad idea for the checkers...

[CodeMonkey2000]

Make a particle engine. Particle engines are very cool.

[syntax_error]

I second the particle engine, would be very cool. Very.

[md]

CodeMonkey2000 @ 2008-05-08, 7:45 pm wrote:

Make a particle engine. Particle engines are very cool.

And incidentally are pretty easy