BE Projects - Building Social Applications as a BE Project
BE Projects - Building Social Applications as a BE Project
BE Projects and Ideas
One of the key questions that keep coming up when we visit colleges to discuss BE Projects is a suitable project idea and where to look for ideas. There always seems to be a dearth of good useful ideas and students from engineering colleges tend to repeat the tried and tested model of implementing a 'Systems Project' or a 'Networking Project' something that is typically a small tweak of something that has been implemented by their seniors.
When we work with our students we tell them to find the best project idea, look around yourself its there in your every day life. Every project does not necessarily have to be on the coolest new technology platform or radically change an algorithm. The greatest changes have always evolved from basic incremental changes and innovations.
Look Around for Problems
If you look around and find problems around you they are the project ideas that you are looking for. Lets look at a sampling of some problems:
Internet access still is a valuable commodity. There are only a few machines with internet access probably to ration the available bandwidth. How about an internet proxy with specific intelligence built in to prevent access to non educational content.
Power consumption in Labs are an issue but we routinely see unutilized computers. How about a solution to shutdown/hibernate an entire network for labs as an open source solution.
Books for each college year is prohibitavely costly every year. How about a student book rental service which works primarly off SMS network of college students.
Not only are these great project ideas, they can be applied in the real world with real everyday customers. Building something someone wants is the first step of a sucessful project. This is what we call Social Apps, Apps that can we can use in our everyday life.
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