[PHP] Re: Final Year Computer Science Project involving PHP

2002-07-14 Thread Richard Lynch

The onus is on us to define the problem boundaries, to investigate possible

solutions, and to present the results verbally, in writing and (possibly) to

demonstrate in action. They like having projects that find solutions (or
improve a

current sloution) real life problems.

You may want to look at http://sourceforge.net for some interesting ideas of
projects that are under-staffed, or at http://linuxfund.org (ditto).

If there's any particular extra-curricular activity you are interested in,
do some thinking on what kinds of software might be particularly useful for
that.

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[PHP] Re: Final Year Computer Science Project involving PHP

2002-07-12 Thread Garland Foster

Hi Serdar,

Let me check my bag of sadly archived projects mmmhyes

I have a good idea for an A project: A RELAX NG validator for PHP. You 
can base your work on Jing, a RNG validator in Java. The advantages 
are clear

a) 100% feasible (if everything fails just watch how Jing does it)
b) Lot of CS theory to cover (Nullable patterns, ambiguous grammars, 
tree grammars, derivatives, etc)
c) Good documentation
d) Really useful for the PHP community
e) Original
f) Technically challenging
g) You can get some support/help from the PHP community (I guess)

What do you think?

Garland.



 Hi,
 
 Please read the rest of this email if you're interested in helping final
 year
 
 Computer Science student (yes, that's me...) by giving him some ideas on his
 final
 
 year project very possible involving PHP and SQL...
 
 I will start next autumn my third year of Computer Science studies. I have
 to carry
 
 out a large programming project in this final year. These projects are
 supervised
 
 and assessed via a dissertation and an oral presentation. The project alone
 counts
 
 for 20% of my whole degree, so it is quite important.
 
 A variety of project proposals have been made available for our
 consideration
 
 already but they all look very dull and boring. We are also encouraged to
 come up
 
 with our own project ideas.
 
 The onus is on us to define the problem boundaries, to investigate possible
 
 solutions, and to present the results verbally, in writing and (possibly) to
 
 demonstrate in action. They like having projects that find solutions (or
 improve a
 
 current sloution) real life problems.
 
 This summer, I am doing an internship in a Swiss IT company, working on a
 Content
 
 Management System implemented with PHP and MySQL. This will obviously give
 me some
 
 valuable experience with these languages (I sort of already learn them quite
 
 well...) and most of our tuition in Uni is based on Java.
 
 If you can think of an interestin final year project involving hese
 languages, it
 
 would be very kind to share it with me... In order to obtain a very high
 mark, the
 
 project needs to be challenging. For example, having an e-commerce web-site
 using a
 
 Database is seen as a weak, non-innovative project...
 
 
 Many Thanks for your time
 
 Serdar Sokmen
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 
 
 



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[PHP] Re: Final Year Computer Science Project involving PHP

2002-07-12 Thread Kondwani Spike Mkandawire

Hey Serdar:

Have you ever heard of a piece of Software called 1st Place...
You can create a simulation of that...  It is used for
Cooperative Education Services...  We have it in place
here at Memorial University (Canada)...
It gives coordinators of various cooperative education
programmes a decent way of keeping track of Employers
for Interns participating in their programmes, Students
enrolled as interns, schedules for job interviews...  e.t.c
A similar type of software is Place Pro...

Here is what happens: There is a user friendly front end...
When an Employer enlists to the program (i.e. when they
want to contact students from a particular field they contact
our office and are entered into the DataBase)  All relevant info.
is stored...  Queries are in the form of forms...  and are made
against a couple of Databases in our Case Student.db
(holding Students), Company.db (holding Company info),
Schedule (I am not sure what table that one is held in)...
Noticably they are all Paradox Tables...  There are Lock
Mechanisms that prevent Overwriting of a particular Row
given two people are logged on at the same time...  Such
a project would depend on the ability to which your mind
can conjure up pictures relating to such a project...  Alot of
features are taken into account...  p/s: when engaging in
such a project you ought to take into account security...
You don't want every Tom, Dick and Harry to get at your
Data (Hence the User Friendly Front End Should be straight
Forward as well as Secure)...

Good Luck in Your final decision...

Spike...
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 Hi Serdar,

 Let me check my bag of sadly archived projects mmmhyes

 I have a good idea for an A project: A RELAX NG validator for PHP. You
 can base your work on Jing, a RNG validator in Java. The advantages
 are clear

 a) 100% feasible (if everything fails just watch how Jing does it)
 b) Lot of CS theory to cover (Nullable patterns, ambiguous grammars,
 tree grammars, derivatives, etc)
 c) Good documentation
 d) Really useful for the PHP community
 e) Original
 f) Technically challenging
 g) You can get some support/help from the PHP community (I guess)

 What do you think?

 Garland.



  Hi,
 
  Please read the rest of this email if you're interested in helping final
  year
 
  Computer Science student (yes, that's me...) by giving him some ideas on
his
  final
 
  year project very possible involving PHP and SQL...
 
  I will start next autumn my third year of Computer Science studies. I
have
  to carry
 
  out a large programming project in this final year. These projects are
  supervised
 
  and assessed via a dissertation and an oral presentation. The project
alone
  counts
 
  for 20% of my whole degree, so it is quite important.
 
  A variety of project proposals have been made available for our
  consideration
 
  already but they all look very dull and boring. We are also encouraged
to
  come up
 
  with our own project ideas.
 
  The onus is on us to define the problem boundaries, to investigate
possible
 
  solutions, and to present the results verbally, in writing and
(possibly) to
 
  demonstrate in action. They like having projects that find solutions (or
  improve a
 
  current sloution) real life problems.
 
  This summer, I am doing an internship in a Swiss IT company, working on
a
  Content
 
  Management System implemented with PHP and MySQL. This will obviously
give
  me some
 
  valuable experience with these languages (I sort of already learn them
quite
 
  well...) and most of our tuition in Uni is based on Java.
 
  If you can think of an interestin final year project involving hese
  languages, it
 
  would be very kind to share it with me... In order to obtain a very high
  mark, the
 
  project needs to be challenging. For example, having an e-commerce
web-site
  using a
 
  Database is seen as a weak, non-innovative project...
 
 
  Many Thanks for your time
 
  Serdar Sokmen
  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 
 
 
 
 





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