Ha, that reminds me of the movie Pi. If I remember correctly, he was trying to come up with an algorithm that could predict stock market behavior (or maybe that was another movie). Anyway, yeah, that's a good idea. The more general form: using computers to scour data to determine if the typical qualities actually indicate desired results. You might apply this to other fields as well. For example, if you can get your hands on a list of criminals and attributes about them, you might correlate violent behavior with certain parental structures (although, not sure if that type of data is available to the public). Something to consider is if there is something you would like to predict (the result of a horse race, if a person is going to commit a crime). Just need to make sure you can find something with available data or where the data can be created in a short enough duration (within a few months).
DABBee wrote:
your life savings (10 maybe 20 bucks)
Hey, that's nothing to scoff at. I'm currently several thousand dollars in debt, so my life savings is actually in the negative.
Visual Studio is an excellent GUIIDE.