Project ideas

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
324 project	Take your old 324 project and improve (part of) the design.
427 project	Take an old 427 project and improve the design.
Better Java collections	Improve the Java collections hierarchy, e.g. by adding `Bag`, `MultiMap`, etc.
Animation framework	Design a set of classes to help programmers build custom 2D animations.
Wire-frame models	Design a system to make wire-frame models of things like human faces. Allow them to be rotated, distorted, etc.
122 demo software	Design software to demonstrate to students how a range of data structures and algorithms work.
Automatic GUI generation	Devise a system to automatically make a user interface for domain objects. (See `BlueJ` & "naked objects".

Claimed topics

Student	Topic	Description
Luke's project	Network Data Visualization	My Honors project
Lukas's project	File Duplicate Finder	Random tool I wrote for myself in C years ago.
Paul's project	Java Media File Tagger	Powerfull pattern based media file tagger, primarily for mp3 files.
Darryl's project	.Net Logging Framework	A .Net based logging framework to allow logging to any destination.
Joey Scarr	Blur Autocomplete	The auto-complete system for my Honours project (probably).
James' Project	Pseudobreakpoint System	The data capture subsystem for my Honours project.
Josh's Project	Animation App	Simple humanoid animation system (perhaps with inverse kinematics).
Martin's project	325 Reporting Interface	The report generating interface for my old 325 project.
John Hofman	Instant Messenger	An instant messenger system for my ENEL428 concurrency assignment.
Nick's Project	Ray Tracer	The first Cosc363 assignment, a Ray Tracer.

Example projects

Student	Topic	Description
Greg Searle's project blackjack	Blackjack statistical simulator	Design a blackjack game that will analyse many peoples playing styles
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

See also

• 427 assessment.