Need ideas for a simple web app for project.

Need to make a little webapp for a class project. Don’t worry about languages/tech, I can handle it all. Just can’t think of an idea.

Mashup, or something. Anyone have any ideas or would like to see something done?

write an app that can analyze morse code sound input and convert it to text

That’s actually very fucking interesting! But that’s a little outside of the scope for this class. Project is supposed to be small.

Might do that next semester though. Anything I do will be open sourced.

not very useful, but definitely interesting. I have it near the bottom of a long list of stuff I want to do, but that’s the smallest project on the list

what kinds of things would be in the scope of your class?

an online music writer/composition tool (to write sheet music) would be pretty sweet… or even just an app that displays music written in some form of xml

This is just a BS ‘Survey of programming languages’ elective class. (I’m a Comp. Sci. major.)

The project is we just pick any language and make something, but it’s only 20% of the class grade, so it’s not supposed to be complicated.

I said web-app because me and the other people in my group all like php/jquery/perl/python/etc.

Google go looks cool, too.

We could always do something stupid like a twitter client in cobol running on a HP VAX

you could write an app that allows the user to enter course numbers for an upcoming semester and then display to them all of the possible weekly schedules for the selected courses.

maybe there are three sections of CS1000, two sections of MATH 1111, one section of HIST 1000, and eight sections of BIO 1000. You could build a data structure of the information and then display the possible schedules.

Our schools’ webpage already does that

But you’re thinking along the right lines/scope.

my CS student projects (that I remember) were an anagram solver, something using doubly linked lists, a point of sale system, doctor/patient record software, a mobile phone game, and a few basic websites

nice. that would have been really useful for me. our site would only show a schedule after you’d registered.. so there were no calculations involved for finding different possible combinations

Yeah, we do big projects like that in our capstone classes. We did a freeDB/flickr/Zemanta/Yahoo BOSS mashup last year that analyzed news articles and drew in semantically linked images that were linked to images, that were linked to images, and so on. Could just keep doing down the rabbit hole forever.

That’s why I’m having trouble with this class, big projects are easy to think of

Scope should be something simple like this:

Would a little page that you pasted a URL into, or emailed the link to, and it gave you a screen shot of the page be useful? Like for pages that are too long?

Like but as an ajax-y webpage.

I’d use it

How would you take the screen shot?

I like the idea.

webkit or gecko engine server side doing the rendering.

Automate the keyword collection from the google keyword suggestion tool including proxy support and throttling. Use seed keywords from a database and cycle through them grabbing the keyword suggestion tool results. Support "Groups" of seed keywords and keep all results within the group.

Send me the source.

Win.

If your campus’s class list or library database is available online, you could make some sort of mashup… like read Amazon reviews of books for the classes, or cover image lookup, or search for cheap used books for classes online including used book stores, Amazon, and eBay.

Or you could just make a simple map of the campus that let you scroll around and zoom in, and maybe add annotations.

That’s ridiculously easy to do; what’s the point of this?