Degree in Computing Final Year Project

PrChaos · 11 Oct 2011 at 16:30

Hi guys. I'm currently studying for a degree in computing (BSc Computing) and for my final year project I have to develop some sort of product that can be used for a specific purpose. For example, a CPU stress testing application.

It can be something similar to products already available but it must have some sort of advantage over the one that already exists.

My problem is... I can't think of anything that we don't already have that is possible to create within my skill set.

I have done Java and C# programming as well as SQL so I am competent in all of those areas... But I am not an expert in any of them.

Does anyone have any possible ideas they think might be useful in the real world?

Thanks.

anything I don't mind · 11 Oct 2011 at 18:20

i think the course is meant to make you an expert. Just remake something that has already been made ?

PrChaos · 11 Oct 2011 at 18:29

Yes that's true, but the point is I have about 3-5 months to think of an app or product that I can develop that is useful. There is no point undertaking a huge project that is completely unmanageable because it cannot be done within the time scale.

Sin_Chase · 11 Oct 2011 at 23:29

Develop a mobile phone application that has a desktop counterpart that might be useful on the mobile platform?

PrChaos · 12 Oct 2011 at 20:48

Sin_Chase said:
Develop a mobile phone application that has a desktop counterpart that might be useful on the mobile platform?

Mobile counterpart? I'm afraid I don't quite get what you mean. Do you mean an app for a phone that has the ability to communicate with a desktop app?

ng93 · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:44

You could download the Linux source code and pretend you made it

PrChaos said:
Mobile counterpart? I'm afraid I don't quite get what you mean. Do you mean an app for a phone that has the ability to communicate with a desktop app?

I think thats what he means, like say a phone app the runs in the background and connects to a PC over bluetooth or the interwebs, then a PC app that can be used to send/receive SMS messages through the phone. If you made the PC part in Visual Studio you could use C#, make the phone part for Android (Java) and use a SQL database on the PC to store the messages? Note I haven't thought this through at all, just food for thought

Edit: just noticed you said 3-5 months to think of a project :eek:

You could probably have the project finished before that deadline is up, let alone the development deadline

nikeair94 · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:48

PrChaos said:
Mobile counterpart? I'm afraid I don't quite get what you mean. Do you mean an app for a phone that has the ability to communicate with a desktop app?

Create an Overclockers UK iPhone app.

Or android, or both!

spm_uk · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:49

Multi site Alcohol Stock Market like some bars have. Create it for a chain like Revolution Bars.

Make it more complex compared to the crappy ones most bars have. Have a "members" card attached to it where you can collect stock etc. Also have a web access so people can track what they have brought etc. You can then put in a whole marketing and advertising piece where you are collecting information and creating a community brining back customers all the time as they can go into any bar.

That can easily incorporate Java, C# and SQL.

I can give you more ideas if you want

as I did one for my final year project but it was very simple and had none of those ideas incorporated.

PrChaos · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:57

I guess I actually got the 3-5 months to think of one lol. From today's lecture I need to get an idea as soon as possible really.

I like the idea of using making an app for Android as well as for a PC, but I'm not so sure about the SMS part of it.

Do you think it has potential for any other uses? For example... Transferring files from the phone to a location on the PC?

rexehuk · 12 Oct 2011 at 21:59

nikeair94 said:
Create an Overclockers UK iPhone app. Or android, or both!

+1 Would be nice to read OcUK from an app instead of having to use web browser on phone.

ZombieFan · 13 Oct 2011 at 13:46

PrChaos said:
I guess I actually got the 3-5 months to think of one lol. From today's lecture I need to get an idea as soon as possible really.

I like the idea of using making an app for Android as well as for a PC, but I'm not so sure about the SMS part of it.

Do you think it has potential for any other uses? For example... Transferring files from the phone to a location on the PC?

Hmm. Just try to think about things the phone has to offer and what you can make from it. For example, how about an app which tags photos on your phone with the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken (phones might already do this via geotagging?)

You could then develop a PC application which let you search for photos taken in a specific location after they had been uploaded to your PC. So you could find photos taken at home, around a friends house or when you last went to Spain on holiday?