Ask HN: (for a friend) Project tips for CS students?
"Four of us Computer Science students are doing a Senior Design design class. We need to finish a complete project over 2 quarters. Only problem is the suggested projects seem uninteresting, and we can't think of anything exciting either. The sky is limit when it comes to projects, mobile, web, app, whatever we want we can do.
Please give us some project ideas! Oh and we'll do a combined 4 person tell-all about it when the project is over and done with!
2 have worked lightly in graphics, nothing very advanced, just light work with OpenGL, and know the Qt toolkit. 2 have built a DBMS from near scratch. 1 has work experience in social media. 2 have work experience in QA/QC. 1 studies econ. 1 has a more Comp Eng. background with computer architecture, circuits, etc. 1 is a rare CS girl :O
We've all finished most of our required classes, so we've touched things like OSes, algorithms, various programming languages, computer architecture.
On top of it all we rarely see sunlight... they like to keep us CS students in a dark dingy basement, with no wifi or cell phone reception."
Got any tips for them?