This page is intended to help people choose a good topic for their OOD assignment. Before committing to a topic, talk to User:Warwick Irwin about its suitability.
Advice
As far as possible, choose a topic that:-
- You're already involved with for another course, research project or work. You're more familiar with the requirements & design issues, and you get a double payoff.
- You're interested in.
- Is hard to design, e.g. because conflicting forces are involved.
- Is not too broad, or has a smaller component you can concentrate on.
Some topic ideas
| Topic |
Description
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| 324 project |
Take your old 324 project and improve (part of) the design.
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| 427 project |
Take an old 427 project and improve the design.
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| Better Java collections |
Improve the Java collections hierarchy, e.g. by adding `Bag`, `MultiMap`, etc.
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| Animation framework |
Design a set of classes to help programmers build custom 2D animations.
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| Wire-frame models |
Design a system to make wire-frame models of things like human faces. Allow them to be rotated, distorted, etc.
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| 122 demo software |
Design software to demonstrate to students how a range of data structures and algorithms work.
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| Automatic GUI generation |
Devise a system to automatically make a user interface for domain objects. (See `BlueJ` & "naked objects".
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Claimed topics
| Student |
Topic |
Description
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| Luke's project |
Network Data Visualization |
My Honors project
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| Lukas's project |
File Duplicate Finder |
Random tool I wrote for myself in C years ago.
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| Paul's project |
Java Media File Tagger |
Powerful pattern based media file tagger, primarily for mp3 files.
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| Darryl's project |
.Net Logging Framework |
A .Net based logging framework to allow logging to any destination.
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| Joey Scarr |
Blur Autocomplete |
The auto-complete system for my Honours project (probably).
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| James' Project |
Pseudobreakpoint System |
The data capture subsystem for my Honours project.
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| Josh's Project |
Animation App |
Simple humanoid animation system (perhaps with inverse kinematics).
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| Martin's project |
325 Reporting Interface |
The report generating interface for my old 325 project.
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| John Hofman |
Instant Messenger |
An instant messenger system for my ENEL428 concurrency assignment.
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| Nick's Project |
Ray Tracer |
The first Cosc363 assignment, a Ray Tracer.
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| Jenny's Project |
Java Collections |
Extend/improve Collections framework.
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| Tanmay's Project |
Digital Logic Simulator |
Java Based event-driven simulator for Digital Logic Circuits.
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| Marina's Project |
Warfarin predictor |
A web based decision support for dose prediction of Warfarin.
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Example projects
| Student |
Topic |
Description
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| Greg Searle's project blackjack |
Blackjack statistical simulator |
Design a blackjack game that will analyse many peoples playing styles
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| Nick Brettel's eight puzzle design |
HCI experiment on collaboration |
Design a program that will run an experiment to test the effects of collabotation during problem solving
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See also
