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[stevie754]

Hi guys,

I am a year or so away from this but I am interested to know what you's all did as your Final Year Project in university. I have a few ideas of what I would like to do but I'm not making any big decisions never know what I could learn this year that could change my mind.

If you's could let me know what you's did and what language you's made it in would be very helpful to see if there are any languages out there people prefer to work with when doing this.

Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Edit: Any advice on areas to go into while planning this would be useful as its never to early to start researching.

[fayyazlodhi]

The best suggestion i have is to use Google's summer of Code. There is wide variety of projects there and you can do research and generate a real world practical software. Not to mention the amount of credibility if you complete it, that is added to your resume.

You should choose a language .net / java / c/c++ depending upon what sort of professional programming you are looking forward to.

If it is systems software, game development etc. do something in c/c++

If you want enterprise or web development choose any relevant language do a project in that domain.

To answer your last question, i was into networking and c stuff, so i developed a web services API for C language and latter an enterprise software which runs on top of that. But that was around 5-6 years ago.

I you are really up for research, a good idea is to look up at pages of MIT, Stanford, Berkeley's etc. web pages of research groups to get a feel for what they are working on and how something there can be of interest to you.

[stevie754]

Thanks a lot I had never heard of Google's summer of Code before seems pretty cool what some of them are doing.