Project ideas?
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Hey, I'm a University student who has to produce a third year final project by Sep 2002 in order to complete my Software Engineering degree. The problem is that I've got no idea of what sort of project to produce. Have you guys got any ideas? I'm not a games developer, so no games! Whatever the idea, I'm going to use C# and VS.NET as development tools. I'm thinking along the lines of "An XML web service about...?" or "A windows/web application about...?" or "A mobile ASP.NET application about...?" But I can't seem to finish the lines off! Any ideas? Any new line ideas? What are you guys working on? Thank you, Steve.
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Hey, I'm a University student who has to produce a third year final project by Sep 2002 in order to complete my Software Engineering degree. The problem is that I've got no idea of what sort of project to produce. Have you guys got any ideas? I'm not a games developer, so no games! Whatever the idea, I'm going to use C# and VS.NET as development tools. I'm thinking along the lines of "An XML web service about...?" or "A windows/web application about...?" or "A mobile ASP.NET application about...?" But I can't seem to finish the lines off! Any ideas? Any new line ideas? What are you guys working on? Thank you, Steve.
I'd be interested in something whereby someone aggreggated all of the data from a particular group of sites, turned it into a web service so that applications can be developed by third-parties to render the data. The parsing implementation could use some type of abstract factory design pattern or reflection to instantiate the appropriate "screen scraping" assembly plugin that is developed by others. For example, I'd be interested in receiving information about new articles/tutorials in C#. So you could develop a news scanner type web service that "screen scrapes" through C# websites like CodeProject, CodeGuru, GotDotNet, CSharpCorner, DotNet247, etc. The actual screen scraping implementation is stored in an assembly DLL to make the system pluggable. Then another program, ie, a Windows Form could be developed by others that sits in the system tray and access your XML web service to render the headlines/links for the new articles.
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I'd be interested in something whereby someone aggreggated all of the data from a particular group of sites, turned it into a web service so that applications can be developed by third-parties to render the data. The parsing implementation could use some type of abstract factory design pattern or reflection to instantiate the appropriate "screen scraping" assembly plugin that is developed by others. For example, I'd be interested in receiving information about new articles/tutorials in C#. So you could develop a news scanner type web service that "screen scrapes" through C# websites like CodeProject, CodeGuru, GotDotNet, CSharpCorner, DotNet247, etc. The actual screen scraping implementation is stored in an assembly DLL to make the system pluggable. Then another program, ie, a Windows Form could be developed by others that sits in the system tray and access your XML web service to render the headlines/links for the new articles.
note that this might be considered illegal in the US, especially if you don't get permission from all of the sites first. -c
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good. Smaller Animals Software, Inc.
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note that this might be considered illegal in the US, especially if you don't get permission from all of the sites first. -c
Conscience is what hurts when everything else feels good. Smaller Animals Software, Inc.
somewhere on the net there are weather information from all wheather stations on earth. For FREE! The data are in an FTP site, split into directories based on date and station code. Each hour a new file created, contaning all the info, encoded in a couple of text lines! You can create the following service: #1) A server every hour reads the new data, (and fills any mising data) into a database. #2) a web service for data requests. #3) some webControls that do the request and present the data for those who don't know SOAP! #4) an app that tells me the temp, in the nearest weather station. What you think? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Memory leaks is the price we pay \0 01234567890123456789012345678901234
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Hey, I'm a University student who has to produce a third year final project by Sep 2002 in order to complete my Software Engineering degree. The problem is that I've got no idea of what sort of project to produce. Have you guys got any ideas? I'm not a games developer, so no games! Whatever the idea, I'm going to use C# and VS.NET as development tools. I'm thinking along the lines of "An XML web service about...?" or "A windows/web application about...?" or "A mobile ASP.NET application about...?" But I can't seem to finish the lines off! Any ideas? Any new line ideas? What are you guys working on? Thank you, Steve.
Well, I did like the screen scraping idea, however with the illegality envolved you may wish to reconsider. I have had a few ideas that are floating around in my head, but with only 24 hours in a day, some of which is taken up by sleep(unfortunately) I haven't had time to complete them. You could create a firewall in C# using .NET. I have still not been able to figure out how to listen or watch for incoming requests on all 65,000 ports(any ideas?). You could also do a bug/error tracker that would integrate well with the web and e-mail support. I would recommend that you post what you do(if possible) as an article here on CP. We would all like to know how it goes. Nick Parker