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I need an idea for a computer program for a school project. I don't want something too hard but not something too easy either. I was thinking maybe something the teachers could relate to but I'm stumped for ideas.
Thanks for the help, any ideas are appreciated.
Drewski
VB6
What level are you at, what skills have you learnt in class?
Teachers seem to prefer it if you take what you have learnt in class and use it in an original way. If you havn't learnt about the API but have learnt about modules then you will get more credit for a program that has a generic function used in different ways than for some clever API calls.
Post up the areas you've covered and we'll give you some Ideas.
Sam's right. Scope a project that borders your knowledge and skills. I assume from your use of teachers, you're in high school or a prep school. If so, you may want to focus to meeting a need for your school or district. Something like a teacher's lesson planner/resource scheduler may present you the opportunity to push the envelope of your knowledge and produce something of value at the same time.
You don't need to make it useful to the school, It should be useful to someone, even if it's not someone you know, that's the sort of thing you're allowed to lie about
how about just a simple rich text editor, when i built my first one, it gave a whole new scope to how a full project is built (with lots of planning), hell my first real class project i build a MS paint-like program with pallets and all. the next year it was database developent that tracks students across campus in the labs and then builds Excel reports (the school licensed this one from me). but it took nearly 5 months.
look at your scope, if you only have a few weeks, something small like notepad, caculator, or pong. if you have a few months, pick up some books,read and plan. in either case don't just start codeing, sketch on some notepaper, until you have full grasp of what your project will do, and how it will accomplish it.
-Matt Mcguire,
NuMaxx Software
What about a VB file uploading ocx?? I need one.
Thanks for the ideas but I see that I was unclear in some areas. I'm not in a programming class. It's in my language arts class :D My teacher has an independant learning program for the "A" students in her class. It's kinda weird programming in a language arts class. I'm only in 8th grade though. I'll be a freshman next year. Plus I can't do any thing big because school is almost out.
McGuire I liked your ideas and I'll probably do one of them maybe the pong game. Thanks for all the help every one I appreciate it.
Drewski
VB6
What about a graphing program? You could plot graph point and calculate the RISE, RUN and SLOPE and a line of Best fit etc. etc.
hey no prob. rember just start with the basics, that you see every day, and work of from that. there is no shame in starting with real small projects, it's more of a confidence builder in the begining
-matt
keep codeing.....