Hi, I'm entering my final year in college. For this year we have to undertake a project on our own. The project must be based on one of the follwing areas..................... web-base/e-commerce, Games, PDA, WAP or Graphics; I have done two projects before, one with java and the ohter a web page with JSP. We are obligued to use a new(ish) technology such as .NET, J2ME etc At this momnet in time I have no appetite for a year long project, primarily because I find computing difficult and boring. I have non idea what sort of project to do. In order to get the degree I must pass my project. So if possible can somebody please advise me on an idea and what technology can be used and what possibilties exist. Thanks in advance.

For a person who finds computing difficult and boring may be you need a new major. If you have no enthusiasm for a project how do you expect to do a good job at it.

Seriously. I don't know how you made it past the first three years if you thought computing was difficult and boring. More importantly, what use is your degree going to be if you have no intention of actually doing anything with it? We need more background to give you decent ideas. What do you know how to do? Have you worked with embedded systems, WAP, PDA, or Graphics before? As for e-commerce ideas, there's no shortage. Make up a computer ordering site where people can order custom computers. You can make it as complex or easy as the project requires. Do a peer to peer textbook ordering site, where students at your college can sell their textbooks to the next generation of students instead of giving them to the bookstore for pennies on the dollar. Use your imagination. Or just find a successful e-commerce site, like e-bay, and copy them. Best of luck, -SN

wow- your brave posting this statement... "primarily because I find computing difficult and boring" computingNet.StartMockery(); My apologies on being another bearer of bad news... but I think you need to find a new major if you feel as though the field you have selected is "difficult and boring". It sounds like you have already given up without really trying. Perhaps you can go into medicine and work in the trauma department for the ER at your local hospital or something. I hear its pretty upbeat that way. Well if you want a degree you will not use and ultimately be wasting your time all the way around... maybe I can suggest a project for you. One that was actually implemented at my university a few years back, that I thought was fairly unique. Their project was the creation of a restuarant that used PDA and WAP to place orders, interact with staff, etc. I'm sure this project idea is fairly trivial. Just think of the operations of one of your local restuarants and automate the procedures that require human interaction. At any rate, another senior project concept for you: Ponder the idea that maybe you need to change majors (yes, at the last minute). Its better to change your major to something more "enjoyable and entertaining" as opposed to spending the rest of your life miserable in a profession you do not understand and therefore hate. Infinite Recursion SN: Has that textbook idea been thrown around before? I remember that from somewhere... lol

Yeah, somebody else posted it before me, but I've had it in mind for years. I've just never gotten around to doing it. I have quite a vision...screwASU.org. It will have the p2p textbook idea, as well as a way for the site to check the schedule every few minutes to see if a class opens up, uncensored professor reviews, old test postings, etc. All the good (legal and ethical) stuff we all wish we had. Who knows, maybe I'll get around to doing it one of these ideas. It's been tried, with low to moderate success, in most universities. It's a problem of reaching critical mass. But We all hate the textbook store rip-offs so much I'd really like to see somebody make it work. The PDA idea was tossed around in my class as well (I also have a senior design project this semester)...It wouldn't be that hard, but you may have to spend the money to get the equipment to test it properly. -SN

Thanks guys for your replies. I must admit I did give the impression that I hate computers. I do enjoy computing - perhaps boring and difficult was an exaggeration - however it does take me a while to get the hang of whatever it is I'm studying. On a brighter note last year I completed a project that involved an e-commerce website implementatd through JSP - at the begining I was disheartened but I put my mind to it and now feel that I'm quite accomplished at JSP. So I'm capable of learning a new language or whatever. Thanks for the ideas - keep em coming.

"Its better to change your major to something more "enjoyable and entertaining" as opposed to spending the rest of your life miserable in a profession you do not understand and therefore hate." Not necessarily true. You assume that getting a certain degree means you have to get a certain job or a certain type of job. Obviously this is not the case. One can work a sales or management job with a technical degree (happens all the time). A degree is a degree. That alone will aid you in finding a good job, in any number of professions. If you have already invested your resources into a certain degree, reverting course means you will undoubtably forfeit a good chunk of your time and effort. It would be wise to finish the degree (since you have come so far) and pursue another degree somewhere else. E-commerce is easy. Buy a book (On JSP, ASP, or PHP), change all the variable names, comments, and filenames. Add a few pictures. There's your project (No joke). Make the XTHML code readable on a wireless PDA - there's your A+. If your grading professors are hard, encrypt the traffic to the PDA.