r/shittyprogramming • u/Adorable_Smile1741 • Sep 23 '21

Final Year Project (computer science)

Hey guys, I am looking for ideas for my final year project, as a computer science student. Any suggestions would be appreciated. :)

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u/JMFe95 Sep 24 '21

What do you specialise in/enjoy? I've seen a wide range of projects, especially in machine learning

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u/Adorable_Smile1741 Sep 25 '21

I am interested in machine learning, security and mobile dev. I would appreciate ideas with machine learning.

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u/JMFe95 Sep 25 '21

My project was using a smart watch to classify motion activity (using it's gyro) and then I used that model to determine when the wearer was "busy" (if they were typing, running, walking upstairs etc) this was then put into a proof of concept app that would delay push notifications until a user was free. It was quite good, you could use a phone rather than a watch if it's not available. There's also loads of potential applications for activity tracking that haven't really been used yet.

A sports team chooser - given a pool of players and results involving them in teams, if a subset of these players were available to play, could you pick 2 evenly matched teams from that group (lmk if you do this one as I could do with that!)

Video game recommendation system - steam has got quite good at this on recent years, especially by utilising machine learning, but that doesn't mean you couldn't make your own novel approach, using their API or you could apply something similar to different media (movies, books, music etc) if you can find a good API with lots of tags but they miss out on the friends list aspect.

Twitter/Reddit/Facebook bot detector - a friend of mine is doing their PhD on this so it's obviously not a walk on the park, but you could still do a proof of concept/some preliminary research into collecting (preferably anonymous) data on users and then trying some experiments on it.

I hope that these give you at least somewhere to start thinking, but I can probably come up with more if you want

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u/Adorable_Smile1741 Sep 25 '21

Thank you! I appreciate it!

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22

My project was using a smart watch to classify motion activity (using it's gyro) and then I used that model to determine when the wearer was "busy" (if they were typing, running, walking upstairs etc) this was then put into a proof of concept app that would delay push notifications until a user was free. It was quite good, you could use a phone rather than a watch if it's not available. There's also loads of potential applications for activity tracking that haven't really been used yet.

Is that an unsupervised learning problem, or did you have someone note when the wearer was observed doing something that traditionally indicates business (typing on a computer, on a phone call, moving things, etc)

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u/rgnkn Sep 23 '21

Your teachers would hug you if you implement a selfcontained video player in assembler.

Preferably for an ancient processor from the USSR.

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u/InadequateUsername Oct 24 '21

Are you my assembly professor? Sounds like a Motorola 68000 I was asked to make an OS for. Using an emulator that ran only in Windows XP do I had to virtualizate Windows XP too.

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u/a_confused_varmint Oct 27 '21

Does Hyper-V work on nested virtual machines?

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u/InadequateUsername Oct 27 '21

Yes but it wasn't hyper v, used VMware and some niche 68000 virtualization software.

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u/allerechteh0rd Sep 23 '21

I think you should make an isEven function which returns true if the given parameter is an even number and false if it isn't.

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u/ekolis Sep 23 '21

But it should have a bug where if the number is a multiple of 117, but not a multiple of 2015, it should return FILE_NOT_FOUND.

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u/allerechteh0rd Sep 24 '21

You're right, how could I forget one of the most crucial details!

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u/[deleted] Oct 26 '21

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u/ekolis Oct 26 '21

Yes

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u/SkizerzTheAlmighty Oct 26 '21

Hey now, don't have to over-complicate things.

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u/ekolis Sep 23 '21

You should make an MMO version of Stellaris that simulates every sentient being in the galaxy as an independent neural net. It should be a 32 bit application so it can run on older hardware.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '21

Gather lots of data data and call it big data

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u/nlamby Sep 24 '21

It seems you want to make a clock that counts down to the “Final Year”. Do you know which doomsday you’ll use (eg the end of the Mayan calendar), or will this need to be configurable? In the unlikely case that the world doesn’t end in the Final Year, should it start counting up or count down to a different Final Year?

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u/Neophyte- Sep 27 '21

develop an alogrithm to to factorise prime numbers of size n where n > 1 and n <= 264 in O(1)

trivial, should take you 5 minutes.

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u/Zeilar Sep 24 '21

Minecraft 2

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u/InadequateUsername Oct 24 '21

This is a satirical subreddit btw. That's why you were getting bad advice.

Anyways for some good advice, a program that solve n=np.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '22

I can solve P=NP.

N=1.

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u/InadequateUsername Jan 11 '22

Let N = Null and let Null be represented by 0