I'm currently a information systems student and taking my first and last section of software engineering. I'm looking for cool app ideas that would be under a 10 week deadline to actually brainstorm/create/test the product. Any ideas? Thanks!

something to interact with <<insert your favourite api>> (weather, youtube, goodreads, rss, etc)
simple game (space invaders, frogger, pacman, pin-the-tail-on-<<takepicture>>, etc)

i could always use a good audiobook player.

do you have to create a new app, or can you contribute to an open source project?

This post was edited by carteblanche on Sep 7 2016 08:09pm

Those are all great ideas! I guess I should have mentioned that they want us to work in partner with a business and or person who the program might benefit in some business way.

We have to create a new App. I'll be on a team of 4-6 people. The talents of those 4-6 should be assumed to be first year software engineering students. Two parts of java (some 3), database, and web programming

This post was edited by Zom8 on Sep 7 2016 08:21pm

i remember my senior design class we did something similar. we had groups of 2-4 people and we sought out different departments within the school and small businesses.

- one team worked with one of the science department. they had access to a lot of cool technologies, but they lacked the manpower to write scripts to help automate some tasks. so the team built a front end to help with that.

- one guy was interning at a company and the group decided to build extra features for the company's product.

- one team worked with a local veterinarian office. i dont remember the details, but it was something to help the workers manage something internally to replace a spreadsheet.

you could always look around for local animal shelters and whatnot and offer to build a website for them. give them an easy way to add pics of the animals directly from their phone.

some advice i'd give. if you work with a real business and your contacts are non-technical people, the hardest part of the project will be getting requirements. a lot of non-technical people are terrible at writing requirements, thinking of edge cases, etc. no matter how much UI mockups/prototypes you give them, they won't give real feedback until it's in their hands. if your project takes 10 weeks, expect to code for around 4 weeks and the rest is non-coding stuff (design documentation, test plans, meeting, etc). if you actually plan on 10 weeks of coding, you'll very quickly fall behind, especially if your team-mates aren't the best.

This post was edited by carteblanche on Sep 7 2016 08:29pm

The project details say it could be for friends or family, but she prefers that it not. Being a college town I thought of the idea of making an app that allows people to gps their friends location (obviously people could only add people they trust). If someone goes out drinking for the night they can set their phone to 'buddy mode' and their phone can periodically ping their current location. There could also be a status option that would allow people to identify a social gathering, which would allow friends to have access to the location. Its a touchy subject revolving around parties I suppose, but its also has safety in mind because it can help predict someones last location say the do go missing or something goes bad. If I were to submit this idea, do you think this could be completed in the timeframe?

keep in mind nobody is actually gonna use it, so focus on making the programming easier.

store all the data on a server. each device transmits gps in the background. instead of pinging someone else and having the devices interact with each other, just return the latest data on the server. for the UI throw together a buddy list and use google maps. you should be able to do that in a few days

brilliant. Also, there is a new Crisis Center in the area that deals with suicide prevention. I thought of an app that would allow people to anonymously seek help. The app would allow people to answer questions based on what they feel they need and the app would direct them to available resources in the their particular area (hotlines, support groups, food pantry, counseling, hospitals... all based on the location they give). A lot of times people with problems do not want to search the internet for help or do not who to talk to and or seek for help. It could also allow for human follow up if the user desired to do so. I don't want to pick something too simple, but rather something that has a purpose and could be user friendly and professional at the same time.

This post was edited by Zom8 on Sep 7 2016 08:56pm