Help with a Software Project?

[Toobin]

I am in the final year of my MSc in software engineering and need to pick an idea for an end of year project. Generally most people write some form of web based application like a booking system or server based game with multiplayer functions for example.

The project is awarded more points if you use new technologies or technologies that we have not been taught (UNIX, C++, VC++, SQL, Oracle, HTML, Java, JSP etc). I have a few basic ideas for projects but really want to make something that will give me a distinction rather than a merit.

So with the infinite genius that inhabits PH I thought I’d pose the question to you…..

As the university holds the intellectual rights I am not looking for something that will make me a ton of cash and therefore them so ideas that have already been done are also fine….I guess my main interest is in exploring a new area of software engineering and getting those grades, so what is hot at the moment and what is worth getting into... c# .net????

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Plotloss said:

Write a universities admission system in CICS COBOL

That sort of thing should fit right in with the average software engineering lecturer.

BTW do you still get taught about things like the Z specification language on Software Engineering?

Thanks Plotless, we did some assembler which was a nightmare (nested for loop!). I'm looking to move more to the java side of things really and want something that I can showcase when I change careers but an online admission system would be something I could work on...did something similar with some coursework where I produced a self marking online test with registration process through SQL and DB....

Edited by Toobin on Tuesday 13th November 21:26

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Plotloss said:

Archaic technology found on mainframes, as mainframes are essentially batch only machines CICS came along to manage interactive sessions so they didnt drop.

I was being a bit obtuse, for which I apologise.

AJAX calling a SOAP middleware layer to some sort of DBMS is the technology flavour of the moment. You could do the front end in just about anything, the middle layer in JAVA and the back end in just about anything.

Yeh I thought you were taking the pss but being a true gent I walked around rather than into it….may edit my original comments now and make you look bad after spending the rest of week thinking of a witty response.

SOAP sounds interesting and worth a look however

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mikeg996 said:

Do a study of outsourcing strategies - and get some Russians to do your software project for you

Already thinking down those lines by running this thread I guess

Some pretty strong pulls towards AJAX here then I guess....already looked it up on wikipedia too, now just 365 days to go until I tell you how I got on

Thanks for all the comments even the suggestion on palm reading.....I'm sure it will become a standard feature in the caravans of tomorrow