Hope this isn't too off topic. I need to come up with a project for my undergrad course. I've done a lot of background reading about .NET security. Does anyone have any idea of something I could develop, either as a useful utility or to combat some shortcoming of .NET security???? Any help appreciated.

Haha well it's kind of a programming question, hope I don't get shouted at! I'm starting a new job as a programmer tomorrow. It's my first job out of university, and I'm worrying! Firstly, that I will be thrown in at the deep end with loads of code I don't understand. Secondly, that I'm not as good as I used to be at learning new things. With the first, I think this is inevitable, but from what I have seen so far, it's not the kind of environment where I will have much help from other people. It's more a case of me figuring things out on my own. Although this is inevitable, I'm worried that Im not quite at the stage to be able to work out exactly what is going on from an early stage. Another six months of exposure, and I would be At the same time I will hvae With the second, I'm not sure if it's because nowadays I'm dealing with different or more difficult technologies, for instance i've experimented with COM, CORBA, SOAP and a few other technologies, but haven't made serious progress with them. Traditionally, I have learnt things fairly easily. I remember picking up VB, C++, MFC, ASP & some other langauges fairly quickly. I used to get engrossed in new subjects and sit for hours trying to learn them, with some success. Nowadays, things don't go in easily. I still sit their for hours (maybe not with quite the same degree of motivation), but my slowdown in learning really bugs me. Do people think this is just because I'm working with more difficult stuff?? Any tips for learning programming, especially from moving from this nasty intermedate phase, through to someone who can be considered advanced. The most important issue for me is how to learn, rather than knowing specific technologies or API's well. I'm sure going to have a lot of exposure to C++, and just want to make the most out the oppurtunity. Thanks...