Project Propasal
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Good day to all, I'm a c++ student. I have a problem about this subject, I need help or suggestion! Because my instructor told us to make a project proposal but i don't know what kind of program I'll going to make!..",! Any suggestion if what kind of program i will going to make?
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So, arturk, what's your level of experience with programming? Complete newbie? 1 class? 20 years?
So, arturk, what's your level of experience with programming? Complete newbie? 1 class? 20 years?
The best kind of proposal is for a program you want to make, something that will challenge you to learn something new but be mostly based in what you already know.
For example, a final year University project proposal might actually be
- a small, garbage-collected language. Or
- a fancy GUI that creates and manipulates varieties of Turing Machines and visually executes them for classroom use. (That's what I did.)
- A friend of mine wrote something that played with the properties of prime numbers.
- Even a simple, networked video game that requires you to apply disciplines in memory management, databases, networking, and UI design. (I nearly finished a Pente game that students can play on the school's servers [unfinished because it was a project for teaching, and the class ended before it could do more than handle players at one terminal].)
- The PLIS Group has a lot of mathematically-oriented ideas here:
http://akira.ruc.dk/~mir/plis/studentprojects/
If this is only your first or second year, try something small. You don't know enough yet to make a Quake engine. Remember, the purpose of a project proposal is two-fold: (1) demonstrate what you know, and (2) demonstrate that you can learn and apply something new.
So you can do things like
- make a 3D tick-tack-toe game, or a breakout clone, etc.
- do the Knight's Tour with some look-ahead intelligence.
- write a little graphical demonstration of Maxwell's Demon.
- reinvent some wheel. (Write a "make" program, or a file and directory manager, or a program preprocessor, a spell-checker, word-counter, etc)
In short: Make a list of some things you would like to do. Examine what you would need to know to do each one. Discard those that are too easy or that would require you to learn a whole new discipline. Pick one that you can use what you know to learn something new (something small).
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Sometimes (particularly if you are new at this) it is hard to know where your limits are. That is where consultation with your professor comes in. Narrow your ideas down to two or three and ask him to help you decide on which one to implement and what requirements (or goals) you would like to meet with it.
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Good luck!
For example, a final year University project proposal might actually be
- a small, garbage-collected language. Or
- a fancy GUI that creates and manipulates varieties of Turing Machines and visually executes them for classroom use. (That's what I did.)
- A friend of mine wrote something that played with the properties of prime numbers.
- Even a simple, networked video game that requires you to apply disciplines in memory management, databases, networking, and UI design. (I nearly finished a Pente game that students can play on the school's servers [unfinished because it was a project for teaching, and the class ended before it could do more than handle players at one terminal].)
- The PLIS Group has a lot of mathematically-oriented ideas here:
http://akira.ruc.dk/~mir/plis/studentprojects/
If this is only your first or second year, try something small. You don't know enough yet to make a Quake engine. Remember, the purpose of a project proposal is two-fold: (1) demonstrate what you know, and (2) demonstrate that you can learn and apply something new.
So you can do things like
- make a 3D tick-tack-toe game, or a breakout clone, etc.
- do the Knight's Tour with some look-ahead intelligence.
- write a little graphical demonstration of Maxwell's Demon.
- reinvent some wheel. (Write a "make" program, or a file and directory manager, or a program preprocessor, a spell-checker, word-counter, etc)
In short: Make a list of some things you would like to do. Examine what you would need to know to do each one. Discard those that are too easy or that would require you to learn a whole new discipline. Pick one that you can use what you know to learn something new (something small).
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Sometimes (particularly if you are new at this) it is hard to know where your limits are. That is where consultation with your professor comes in. Narrow your ideas down to two or three and ask him to help you decide on which one to implement and what requirements (or goals) you would like to meet with it.
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Good luck!
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You could do a project like mine. Right now I am working on a program calculator, just like the one that came with window xp. It's a lot of work, and very challenging working with C++, and WinAPI. Hehehe. I am almost done with everything, except I need to make it so it work with all data types, double, float, long int. hehe.
My next project will probably be a fully functioning blackjack card game, with GUI and everything. Then after that a chess board...I can't wait to do those. :)
My next project will probably be a fully functioning blackjack card game, with GUI and everything. Then after that a chess board...I can't wait to do those. :)
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