Project Ideas for class

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I actually found this on a college programming course site.  Its a list of ideas for the class to draw from for project ideas.

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Ideas for the class project
Here are some rough notes that may be useful for deciding on a topic for the class project. You should treat the following as starting points for further discussion and development, not as canned project suggestions (which you can find elsewhere). In particular, the following are not intended to serve as replacements for discussing project ideas and plans (among project team members and with the instructor and TA).

Note that some of these are too simple for a project and others may be too complex. Treat the following merely as a collection of ideas from which you can pick some you like, combining them to get a project that both interests you and is sufficiently challenging from a technical viewpoint. You are encouraged to stop by during office hours to discuss any of the following that may interest you.

See also: Project Guidelines. As mentioned in the guidelines, innovative projects are encouraged. While the number of truly innovative ideas in your project is not a primary factor in deciding the project grade, picking an innovative and unusual project has the significant advantage that you will be less likely to get bored with the project and will have more fun working on it.

Online store of some kind (sim. to amazon.com and friends)
	books, CDs, electronic music (e.g., mp3), ...
	catalog, browsing, shopping cart functions, payment,
	fulfillment, ...

Library DB
	Search collections, check status, checkout anc checkin,
	incorporate existing system

Room scheduling
	distributed authorization
	very low maintenance
	easy report generation
	clickable, annotated map as UI

Personal Information Manger (PIM)
	contacts, addresses, phones, ...
	appointments
	diary
	to-do list

Something similar to the Elisp package bbdb.el

Meeting scheduler

XML in a RDB/ORDB

UMD Parking lot information DB
	best parking based on destination, cost, etc.
	fallback lots
	special cases
	ease of update

Restaurant/Cafe/Bar/Pub/... reviews DB

Consumer reviews database (similar to epinions.com).

Class schedule, prereq, comments, grading, etc. DB

CS Personnel and/or Machine DB  (simple)
	Info about every CS "entity": people, machines, labs, vending
machines, rooms, ...  

Bank of AVW (simple)
	Debit, credit, billing, interest, ...

Job postings DB
	Openings, contacts, references, reviews, requirements, bidding, ...

USENET Data Miner (hard)
	Import data from USENET into RDB (fact table), import data
from other sources for author info, group info, org info, ... 
(property tables), mine

Data mining Web server logs (hard)
	Similar to USENET Data Miner

Email (SMTP) server using a DBMS
	focus on novel functionality enabled or simplified by DBMS

USENET (NNTP) server using a DBMS
	focus on novel functionality enabled or simplified by DBMS

Storing graph data in a relational DB?

DBMS survey(more work but easier work)
	Implement a very simple project on N DBMSs (preferably open
source or free) for N > 3 and report experience.
	
DBMS interface survey
	Implement a very simple project using M libraries or APIs
(e.g., Perl libraries, Python libraries, and ODBC and JDBC bindings
for C++) for M > 3 and report experience.

Historical weather DB
	retrieve, parse, and store weather information from NWS and
other *public domain* sources over time; implement browsing and
querying that can be used to discover trends, records, trivia.

Auction database
	Similar to eBay.com

Historical traffic DB
	Similar to historical weather DB.

Netnews server (similar to DejaNews)
	enhanced querying, consistency, security and control.

Personal finance DB (similar to Intuit Quicken, Microsoft Money, etc.)
	Download data from the Net in popular formats (QIF, OFC, ...);
analyze in interesting ways; trends; bill payments.

Write an ODBC or JDBC driver(ambitious).

Database for WMUC (service).

Integration projects: Combine information from three or more public
databases and present it in a nice format.  (This component can be
added to many of the above projects.  For example, you could integrate
weather information from a number of sources.)

Data Warehousing and Data Mining: Collect gobs of data from some
source, support queries, discover trends, etc.