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  • Offline Sam

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on: March 23, 2008, 14:22:04 PM
I need to write a website for a project at university.
Anyone got any ideas? I dont want to do something boring thats been done 100 times before.
It doesnt matter how viable it is financially as is just for credit here.
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Reply #1 on: March 23, 2008, 14:38:07 PM
a forum for techie types?  :mutley:

actually if you wanted to be lazy you could make a new tekforums under a new name - use your sam BB software and ask all tekforums users to migrate over there for a month while your assignment gets marked - probably get bonus marks for your own proprietary BB software
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Reply #2 on: March 23, 2008, 14:46:09 PM
I got a fantastic idea one, but its commercial & no way im telling about it on an open forum :P

AFAIK theres no other website that offers the service either.

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Reply #3 on: March 23, 2008, 14:52:44 PM
i dont know if it allready exsists but ive always thought a music version of imdb would be good.
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Reply #4 on: March 23, 2008, 14:57:58 PM
Quote from: DEViANCE
i dont know if it allready exsists but ive always thought a music version of imdb would be good.


Nige and i have brought this up a few times, but we always get shot down in flames.
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Reply #5 on: March 23, 2008, 14:59:44 PM
Quote from: DEViANCE
i dont know if it allready exsists but ive always thought a music version of imdb would be good.


Nige and i have brought this up a few times, but we always get shot down in flames.
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Reply #6 on: March 23, 2008, 15:00:21 PM
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a forum for techie types?  :mutley:

actually if you wanted to be lazy you could make a new tekforums under a new name - use your sam BB software and ask all tekforums users to migrate over there for a month while your assignment gets marked - probably get bonus marks for your own proprietary BB software


Forum software been done a million times tho
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Reply #7 on: March 23, 2008, 15:13:30 PM
Theres hardly anything thats not been done before now though. Id imagine SamBB would be a lot more complex than the projects others on your course would churn out.

How about further customising it so that it caters to a specific audience. Like an educational BB which has features for group work collaboration (mini private boards?) and anti plagiarism type controls in it?

these things are suppoesdly in the Virtual learning Environments being rolled out in unis, the discussion board is there on Bournemouths version, but it isnt used as it seems like a backwards, out of date system. Im guessing most students are familiar with this format of BB though and so its got more potential of being used?
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Reply #8 on: March 23, 2008, 15:15:27 PM
How about a random fact of the day kind of thing, which looks for stubs or paragraphs on wikipedia. Visitors can vote for how interesting the facts are, and the system could learn from the ratings what kind of things to pull from wikipedia for future visits?

That kind of AI programming would be tricky though maybe?
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Reply #9 on: March 23, 2008, 15:28:17 PM
Hmmm anti plagiarization software might be cool, Ill see how advanced current versions are.
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Reply #10 on: March 23, 2008, 15:30:31 PM
lol... been and done. Did it for my group project.

Would take Java, plain text, and C++ (with extendible modules to suit other languages) via email or uploaded in zips, rars, single files.

Check them against a base file, and return matches.

And current commercial versions out there are extremely advanced. Take a look around and youll see what I mean. Ours sounded grandiose, but the current stuff out there knocked it flat on its arse.
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Reply #11 on: March 23, 2008, 15:36:52 PM
Youre right.
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Reply #12 on: March 23, 2008, 15:39:29 PM
Its a good thing if you can crack it, but we spent ages just getting our heads around the mathematics of K-Grams and stuff. :s its a minefield out there.
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Reply #13 on: March 23, 2008, 17:10:06 PM
how many credits is this for? is it actually just a website project or are you having to design some inventive online app or something?

If this is 1st year and only a short module then surely theyre just after a website and any apps etc.. would be a bonus - if so for an easier life Id simple dust the cobwebs off sambb- maybe add some original/rare or functionality you believe forums should contain and then submit that - would save you a feck load of time to concentrate on other modules.  Its not a final year dissertation so I doubt they care too much about originality more just wanting you to show you can go through the motions and actually produce something.

If this is a major project then perhaps gear it towards some area you want to work in in future...
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Reply #14 on: March 23, 2008, 17:48:00 PM
This would be for a final year project.
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