Re: [PHP] Final Year Computer Science Project involving PHP
If completely developing a fully functional and optimized E-commerce site isn't good enough, I don't know what is. I can understand how it may not necessarily be innovative (though it could have innovative features), but designing such a site would prove to anyone I know that you have a great knowledge of the language the site was created in. As for original ideas, good luck. You'll come to find that anything you can think to do has already been done. You're best bet may be to look around some sites on the 'Net and try to vastly improve what has already been done. Projects that find solutions? That could be anything from a Weight Loss Tracking System to an advanced encryption/decryption algorithm. Martin Clifford Homepage: http://www.completesource.net Developer's Forums: http://www.completesource.net/forums/ Serdar Sokmen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 07/12/02 11:14AM 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] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Final Year Computer Science Project involving PHP
[snip] Computer Science student (yes, that's me...) by giving him some ideas on his final year project very possible involving PHP and SQL... [/snip] How about a billing system? Accepts orders, processes invoicing, tracks customer trends and habits, has a method for tracking aged bills (over 30, over 60, over 90, etc.), a method for collections, etc. Billing systems can be quite complex and require extensive planning, they must tie in with inventory systems, sales systems, etc. You could do the whole integration. HTH! Jay -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Final Year Computer Science Project involving PHP
It was a few years ago, waaay back in 96, but if its any kind of help my final year project was to design a hypertext documentation system for Java. All it did was take Java source files, and parse them to produce html output, where instances were linked to take you to the definition of that class, and class definitions were linked to take you to a list of instances of that class. 2 way linkage. Similarly for methods etc. I also added in code colorisation, so comments came up green, strings in blue etc. Doesn't sound that innovative now, but it was quite cool at the time. AND most of the things I had in there can now be seen in any good IDE. Ahead of my time... :-) One thing I did, and I assume you have to do something similar, is an evaluation in your project report. I made the source code available on my web page at university, and got folk on various java newsgroups to evaluate it for me. So not only did that section of the report get virtually written for me, but I got some fantastic feedback and ideas. Just my 2p... == Richard Black Systems Programmer, DataVisibility Ltd - http://www.datavisibility.com Tel: 0141 435 3504 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
RE: [PHP] Final Year Computer Science Project involving PHP
A couple projects that I have thought of doing at are quite large would be: 1. A network monitor, like Big Brother, but written in php. Completely db driven, with an easy to use web interfaces for monitoring/adding systems and has uptime graphs, etc. It can be quite complex if you try to add heirachies connections, so for instance, you'd only alert on the router, and not on all of the systems behind the router -- although you'd show them as down, it isn't reported that they're down. 2. A front end interface to jpgraph that lets you do data mining over any db, allowing you to choose the tables, x-axis, y-axis, labels, overlay another plot over existing ones, etc in an easy to use interface. 3. An access like front end to mysql. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Final Year Computer Science Project involving PHP
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Martin Clifford wrote:
If completely developing a fully functional and optimized E-commerce site isn't good
enough,
I don't know what is. I can understand how it may not necessarily be innovative
(though it could
have innovative features), but designing such a site would prove to anyone I know
that you have a
great knowledge of the language the site was created in.
The uni env tends to rate real life as vulgar :) I suggest you
concentrate on demonstrating something more cultural. It will be of no
use in real life but it's going to get you good grades, which is what
you mostly need at the moment, right?
Something like an automatic translator from Klingon to Elvish will do. I
AM SERIOUS AND SOBER, keep reading. Just make sure your implemented
versions of Klingon and Elvish have sufficiently *mad* grammars to allow
some linguist to step in and join the project team. You may wanna check
W3c docs about the two x-languages in question. They *do* exist.
At that point you'll be doing a cross-speciality work, none of your
tuitors will have the skills required to judge the project without
insulting a collegue and they will be all forced to give you guys good
grades just to get rid of the problem ASAP.
If Klings and Elves won't do (which I doubt, since Tolkien is still
a-la-page) you may wanna protect some linguistic minority in the
Amazonas or in the deepest parts of the central Siberian plains... Won't
keep you from killing them by printing your work on the paper made with
their trees, but it will look s politically correct ;)
You think I'm joking? I am not. But if you miss the guts to go straight
and cheat them, then make a Linux online updater that will work. What?
You like Klingon better? I had no doubts :)
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Re: [PHP] Final Year Computer Science Project involving PHP
... and you could provide hooks so that the billing/sales/inventory systems could all be separate modules of some sort, and you could add/swap out modules as they're needed... and perhaps have them communicate thru XML/SOAP, so that they could be on different hosts altogether. :-) There's a million things you could do, that's the beauty and curse of knowing how to program... too many projects and ideas, not enough time. -- Scott Hurring Systems Programmer EAC Corporation scott (*) eac.com -- Jay Blanchard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message 002f01c229ba$a796a9c0$8102a8c0@niigziuo4ohhdt">news:002f01c229ba$a796a9c0$8102a8c0@niigziuo4ohhdt... [snip] Computer Science student (yes, that's me...) by giving him some ideas on his final year project very possible involving PHP and SQL... [/snip] How about a billing system? Accepts orders, processes invoicing, tracks customer trends and habits, has a method for tracking aged bills (over 30, over 60, over 90, etc.), a method for collections, etc. Billing systems can be quite complex and require extensive planning, they must tie in with inventory systems, sales systems, etc. You could do the whole integration. HTH! Jay -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
