ideas for university project ??

[Eddie Corns]

Jon Hewer <jonhewer at gmail.com> writes:

>Hi

>I'm about to start my third, and final, year in computer science at
>cambridge uni, and i need to come up with an idea for a software
>project, but i'm really struggling for ideas, and i was wondering
>whether anyone here had any suggestions.

>I'd say i'm probably most experienced in Java, but I have started
>learning Python, and although i haven't got very far yet, I plan on
>doing some more in the next few weeks.

>Areas of interested include AI, distributed systems.  Most of all i
>want something that is interesting, and actually useful (thats
>probably stating the obvious!)

Well, there's a dearth of good software for network management especially for
medium to large networks.  Traffic stats, configuration management, device
status etc.  It would certainly be useful but whether it rocks your boat
interest wise ...  Admittedly I personally would like to play with Erlang
rather than Python for this.

Eddie