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| Streakfury |
I'm about to start my final year of Bsc Web Development at university, a large part of which will include me doing a final year project. It's quite important, and goes towards about 60-70% of my degree classification.
I'm having a bit of trouble deciding what I should do for it though. It's obviously got to demonstrate my abilities, but I don't want to make anything too simple or too complicated. I've worked with XHTML, CSS, XML, a bit of Java and C++, JavaScript, SVG, VRML, Flash, ActionScript, Visual Basic, MySQL, Perl and PHP.
So has anyone got any ideas? I was thinking of producing a website for a student accomodation company or property developer, which would have two main users: the company employees and the students. It would involve a database-driven web front end for the students, and possibly a visual basic or Flash application that also allowed access to the database for the employees. Maybe that's too simple I dont know.
I'm basically looking for problem scenrios (real or made-up) so if anyone has got any ideas, it can be anything web-related, lets here them!!
Cheers
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| nchs09 |
| u lost me @ university. i know nothing about comps :( |
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| PEZ68 |
| Do something related to mobiles. i.e A kind of GPS system which use Wi-Fi acces points to determine your location in a musem , exposure ... :conf: |
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| washout |
| make my computer serve me beer ty gg. |
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| LeopoldStotch |
| quote: | Originally posted by Streakfury
I'm having a bit of trouble deciding what I should do for it though. It's obviously got to demonstrate my abilities, but I don't want to make anything too simple or too complicated. I've worked with XHTML, CSS, XML, a bit of Java and C++, JavaScript, SVG, VRML, Flash, ActionScript, Visual Basic, MySQL, Perl and PHP.
So has anyone got any ideas? I was thinking of producing a website for a student accomodation company or property developer, which would have two main users: the company employees and the students. It would involve a database-driven web front end for the students, and possibly a visual basic or Flash application that also allowed access to the database for the employees. Maybe that's too simple I dont know.
I'm basically looking for problem scenrios (real or made-up) so if anyone has got any ideas, it can be anything web-related, lets here them!!
Cheers
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that's awesome dude... good luck ..
anyways .. definately for your final project, since you are dipping into some web development stuff, a big client-server/mvc approach a must ..
i have found that the client side does not need to be some fancy-schmancy coding language .. so i suggest it to be heavy html and css, with some scripting to contact with the server .. but a big must is easy navigation of course .. everyone knows that a lost translation navigation is a big turn-off for users.
now the question is which technology are you comfortable with ?? .net ? jsp ? php ? i am not going to make that decision for you .. :) .. that's your decision .. hahahha ..
now for server side .. i don't know about php and multithreading-marshalling issues .. i do know about the capabilities of them on java and c++ .. but imo, java is easier to code threads for server use .. of course a server needs to be multithreaded to support multiple transactions and stuff ..
if i was doing this, then client side would be html-css, and server side would be java, since i am familiar with rmi and cobra junkie stuff ..
as for topic .. good work .. cant complain there .. if you don't feel comfortable with this topic later, just think of anything that involves a store/owner/shop - customer relation, where the customer goes to the owner to search and shop, and the store/owner provides the information and handles the traffic that is accessing the information ..
as for database .. can't complain about mysql .. imo, mixing vb with mysql is horrendous .. maybe for others is no problem, but i usually mix my java or of course php with mysql .. if you're going strictly vb/c++ material, why not ms access .. a little bit low-key (sorry smokeape .. ), but dependable with microsoft projects . |
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| LeopoldStotch |
| quote: | Originally posted by PEZ68
Do something related to mobiles. i.e A kind of GPS system which use Wi-Fi acces points to determine your location in a musem , exposure ... :conf: |
good topic .. but then again, if you're talking about mobile GPS systems and stuff like that, that means messing with some WAP material with java/c++, which i don't think he knows how to do .. sorry .. :nervous: .. then again, not many people know WAP programming .. who knows to program WAP here ?? |
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| trewqy |
I'm doing my final year project too.
Anyone who went to university of michigan and took mechanical engineering, please PM me. I need some help from ur department.Its about a wheelchair |
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| PEZ68 |
| quote: | Originally posted by LeopoldStotch
good topic .. but then again, if you're talking about mobile GPS systems and stuff like that, that means messing with some WAP material with java/c++, which i don't think he knows how to do .. sorry .. :nervous: .. then again, not many people know WAP programming .. who knows to program WAP here ?? |
I'll begin to learn tomorrow . I'm currently on a job vacation and I have to do a shared calendar available on WAP.
But you must separate WAP with Java/C++. WAP is like Internet but for mobiles. You can create WAP pages with WML 2.0 (which is based on WML 1.3 ,XHTML Basic 1.0,CSSMP (CSS Mobile Phone)), coupled with PHP my example.
Java/C++ is used for creating applications on mobiles. Just look at games on mobiles , it's often Java coded. |
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| Streakfury |
Thanks for your help everyone. Yeah that mobile phone thing-me-bob is a little out of my league I think. :p
I'll definately have a database with an HTML/CSS front end, I'm just deciding whether to use XML or PHP/MySQL for the database access.
Well anyway, if anyone can think of a good idea for a project, I'm all ears. Don't worry about how I'm going to do it, that's my problem lol. I just need a problem to solve.
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| DjConfessions |
| make a language as easy as basic but as powerful as C++ |
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| Streakfury |
I said 'web-related' bwoy!!
Anyways, I haven't got to make a full blown language or anything. Using the existing ones will do fine. :D
I just need problem cases, or case studies, or whatever you want to call them. You know, like "Such and such needs a website that will... blah blah blah". It's just I've no imagination for shizzle like this, so I thought someone else might have. :p |
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| kossack |
think the property management thing's sorta been done... you familiar with Blackboard Academic Suite? they've got a couple plugins that kinda do that. interesting concept though.
http://www.blackboard.com/addons/b2/catalog.htm#Results
as for what to actually do, too frazzled at the moment to think about that...
maybe take the approach of simplifying some sort of web-interface (that would otherwise be exceedingly complex) to the point where it would be graphically appealing but also user-friendly enough to be usable even by old-farts? perhaps aim toward something that could be integrated into an old-folks home or something, like a (broken-down and simplified web-database for elderly neurotic luddites to check out health issues or drug interactions or something. (like i said, i'm frazzled.) |
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