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
314 project	Take your old 314 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
Kris Nicholson	Terrain Rendering	Evaluating and improving the design of the texturing section of a 3D terrain renderer
Tureiti Keith	Genetic Algorithms	An attempt at a generic genetic-algorithms library - OO style
David Thomson	314 Project	314 project from 2007 - WETAS Base classes

Example projects

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

See also

• 427 assessment.