The information on this page is intended to provide a combination of inspiration and technical resources for you as you approach the task of designing and completing your final projects. I expect it to grow over the next few weeks as we work together on these projects.

You are expected to submit a proposal for your project by 11/20 following the guideline in the solicitation for proposals.

The links below provide access to the handouts distributed in previous semesters for the course final projects. In past semesters, we did not give students the option of designing projects of their own. Each of the handouts here describes a project that everyone was expected to complete in some earlier semester.

We are providing these assignments in the hope that they may help you think of ideas of your own. We would certainly be disappointed if everyone just picked one of these assignments and completed it! On the other hand, you are free to choose any project you want, including one of these.

• Address Harvester from Fall '05
• Hidden Images from Spring '07

A CS faculty member at Stanford maintains a collection of "interesting" programming assignment online. Here are a few samples.

• Star Charts
• Detecting Plagiarism
• What's in a Name

The following are some ideas that have popped into my head of projects that might we worth considering.

• With the addition of the Camera class and the "PaceMaker" (described in the last section of the Lab 7 handout), it is pretty easy to do the sort of video preview I have demonstrated in class. Taking it a little further, you should be able to construct a simple video editor. It would let you record, and the cut, copy, and paste pieces of a video. If you reduce the resolution of the images or work in grayscale, you should be able to fit enough images in memory to record at least 15 minutes of video.
• If you have the urge to do a game, consider implementing an interface for a multi-player game that people could play through the network.
• To be continued...