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Maintainable Code
Code as if whoever maintains your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live.

~ François Poulin

Introduction
Here are over 338 ideas for student projects most likely involving Java. Some ideas might be done by teams or a whole class. Some may develop into
commercial projects. You are free to take these ideas and use them as you wish. I would appreciate hearing from you if you decide to implement any of these
ideas. I would also like to hear any comments you would like me to add to the descriptions, or ideas you have for projects. If you have such project ideas on your
own website, I would be happy to build links here.

I have discussed most of the projects many times at length over the last decades on BIX which retained all postings in archives.

Pretty well everything I have to say about each project is spelled out here. I don’t have extra material to give you, unless I explicitly mention it. I don’t have the
time to lead you by the hand through a project. If one project is too difficult to tackle at your current level of skill, pick a simpler one.

If you are unemployed, or just out of school, you might hone your skills by tackling some of these projects. They are more like the real world problems you will
be given in the workplace. In the real world you have to write the specifications too. They are not handed to you on a plate the way they are in school. I give you
many hints on how to solve the problems, far more than you would get in the workplace. These problems are intermediate in degree of hand-holding between
school and the workplace.

I would be happy to implement any of these projects for you, for a fee, though I do not do homework.

Estimated
Commercial
Project Difficulty Existing
Potential
Implementations
4DOS/tcc Describe Helper 0 $ 0
Adbuster 4 $$$ 3
Address Book 1 $$ 50
Accent Tutor 2 $ 0
Alzheimer GPS 3 $$ 0
Affiliate Manager 3 $$ 0
Anti-Counterfeit Scheme 3 $$$ 0
Antique Computers:
Finish the Work Of
5 $ 0
Ada Lovelace and
Charles Babbage
Application Installer 2 $$$$ 5
Aquarium Controller 4 $ 0
A Tractable AI Problem 7 - 0
Apartment Rater
2 $$ 0
client-server
Application Reinstaller and Mover 2 $$$ 0
The Appraiser 2 $$$ 0
Array Sort 2 $ 0
Associations Editor 2 $$ 1
Atomic FTP Uploads 5 $$ 1
Automated Greenhouse 4 $$$ 0

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Estimated
Commercial
Project Difficulty Existing
Potential
Implementations
Automatic File Update 3 $$$$ 2
Autorun Manager 2 $ 1
Baby Danger Simulator 2 $$ 0
Baby Name Chooser 2 $ 0
Background Eliminator 3 $$$ 4
Backup to CD ROM burner. 2 $$$ 0
Beginner’s Projects (very easy) 0 - 0
Best Mirror 2 - 0
Best NTP Server 3 - 0
Beyond Scanning 4 $$$$$ 0
Bible Thumper 2 $$ 0
Birthday Card Maker 1 $ 20
Boilerplate Generator 1 - 0
Birthday Reminder 0 $ 50
Bookmark Sync 2 $ 0
Book Store Referral Applet 3 $$ 1
Bragging Rings 2 $$ 0
Browser Recommender 1 - 0
Bulk File Distributor 4 $$$$$ 2
Bulk Spell Checker 2 $$ 0
Bush Crimes:
Poll people on the web
2 $ 0
for what they think about
Bush’s alleged crimes
BusInfo:
Transit maps
and schedule information 4 $$$$ 0
in a usable form
client-server
BusTel:
exchange electronic business cards 2 $$$$ 0
during a voice call
CAI 4 $$$ 20
Calendar Icon Maker 1 0
Canonical Java Keyword Order 1 - 0
Canvasser Management 0-4 $$$$ 0
Car Horn 3 $$$ 0
Case Fixer 5 $ 0
Case Range 2 $ 0
Case Sort 2 $ 0
Cash Box 3 $$$ 0
CD Player 2 $$$ 0
Celestial Body Tracker/Astrologer 2 $$ 20
Certificate Viewer 4 $ 2
CGI Tutor 1 - 1
Character Identifier 1 - 0
Chequebook Balancer Deluxe 3 $$$ 5
Child Abuse Database
5 $$ 0
client-server
Choreographer Tool 3 $ 0
Chorus Experimenter 2 $ 0
Closest Download Mirror
2 $ 0
client-server
Collections Amanuensis 0 - 0
Colour Chart 0 - 0
Colourful Socks 3 $$$$ 1
Comfy Chair 3 $$$$ 0
The Commentator 2 $ 0
Comparison Shopper 3 $$$$$ 0
Configurator 2 $ 0

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Estimated
Commercial
Project Difficulty Existing
Potential
Implementations
Consolidate Utility 1 $ 0
Conspiracy Theory Voter
2 - 5
client-server
Constructor Amanuensis 3 - 0
Constructor Docs 1 - 0
Converter Class 0 - 1
Cookie Classes 1 $ 0
CSS Colour and Image Annotator 1 $ 0
CSS fixer 2 $$$ 0
Currency Converter 2 $$$ 1
Cursor Installer 2 $ 4
Custom Clothes 7 $$$$$ 3
Date-Sensitive Search Engine
4 $$$$ 0
client-server
Debt Clock 2 $ 1
Defragger 5 $$ 10
Deleecher 2 $ 1
Deleter:
0 - 1
Delete Files With +ve and -ve Wildcards
Delta Creator 4 $$$$ 0
Directory and File Explorer 3 $$ ?
Directory Sync 1 - 10
Disaster Probability 1 $ 0
Design Pattern Amanuensis 3 $$ 0
Dissolve Designer 1 $ 0
Distracted Driving App 2 $$$$ 0
Dogpile Dictionary
4 - 0
client-server
Domain Registry
4 $$$ 0
client-server
Domain Search Engine
4 $$$$ 0
client-server
DVD Player 4 $$ 0
Dynamic Version Control
9 $$$$$ 0
client-server
El Cheapo Certificate Authority 3 $$$ 0
Embedded Editor 2 $ 0
Encoding Identification 2 $$$ 0
Explorer for Files and Directories 3 $$ ?
Extension Associations Editor 2 - 1
External Sort 2 $ 0
Java Factory Method Finder 3 - 0
Fast Snail Mail
6 $ 1
client-server
Fast File Finder 2 $ 3
Finder: for keys, glasses, wallet, TV remote, personal recorder, calculator, ruler… 2 $ 10
File Spell Corrector: corrects spelling of file names 3 $$$ 0
Font Creator 4 $ 0
Electricity Use 1 $ 0
Fair Trade Webstores
3 $$$$ 12
client-server
File and Directory Explorer 3 $$ ?
Fine Print Comb 5 $$$ 0
Firewall Autoconfigure 4 $$ 0
Fitness Monitor
2 $$ 1
possibly client-server
Fluffiness of File Formats 1 - 0
Font Census 1 - 1
Font Finder 1 - 1

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Estimated
Commercial
Project Difficulty Existing
Potential
Implementations
Font Stitcher 3 $$$ 0
FontShower 0 - 1
Font Tattler 3 $ 0
Food Allergy Tracker
3 $$$ 0
possibly client-server
Foreign Language Trainer 3 $$$ 0
Form Filler 2 $ 3
FTP Uploads
5 $$ 1
datacommunications
Genealogy
2 $$ 20
possibly client-server
Gespenster:
4 $ 0
fast JVM (Java Virtual Machine) load
GET to POST: 2 $ 0
Glasses Fixer: 4 $$$$ 0
Glossary Presenter
4 $ 0
client-server
Greenhouse 4 $$$ 0
GridBag Amanuensis 3 $ 0
Hexadecimal Java Programmer’s Calculator 1 $ 0
Hogs 0 - 0
How Gay 0 - 0
Hermit Crab:
1 $$ 0
Variable Length Record Files
Hibernation:
3 $ 0
Fast Program Load via suspended animation
Hiker Safety:
3 $$$ 0
Hiker flight plans and GPS (Global Positioning System) tracker rental
History of The Common Man
1-6 $$$ 0
client-server
Hooker Protector
1 $ 1
client-server
HTML Broken Link Finder 1 $$$ 1
HTML Disturbed Link Patcher 2 $$$ 1
HTML Compactor 1 - 0
HTML Encoding Changer 1 $ 0
HTML Glossary Presenter 4 $ 0
HTML from Java, Source Code Presenter 4 $ 0
HTML Sort 1 $ 0
HTML and Java Static Macros 1 $$ 0
HTML Spell Checker 1 $$ 0
HTML Splitter
2 $$$ 1
& Boilerplate Refresher
HTML Style Splitter 1 $ 0
HTML Table Reorganiser 1 - 2
HTML Table Sorter 1 - 3
HTML Tidier 2 $ 5
Ideal lover database search
4 $ 10
client-server
Image Amanuensis 1 $ 3
Image Cacher 2 - 4
Transparent Image Cropper 0 - 0
Image Compressor:
3 $ 5
compress image files
Image Finder:
3 $ 8
Searches the web for a given file.
Import Tidier 3 - 5
In The Dark Stereo Components 4 $$$$$$ 0
Infinite Disk:
integrated file migration/backup 4 $$$ 2

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Estimated
Commercial
Project Difficulty Existing
Potential
Implementations
client-server
INI file tidier 2 - 0
Installer 2 $$$$ 5
Interface finder 2 $ 0
Internationaliser
3 $$$$ 10
client-server
Internet Credit Card
2 $$$$$ 0
client-server
Internet Radio
4 $$$ 1
client-server
IP Tracer
3 $$ 1
client-server
Jar Clicker 1 - 0
Jar Prune 2 $$ 0
Jar Verifier 1 - 0
Java Case Range 2 $ 0
Java Class Overview 2 $ 0
Java Canonicaliser 2 $ 0
Java File System 6 $ 0
Java Invoker 1 - 0
Java Jar Catalog 1 - 0
Java Keyword Reorderer 1 - 0
Java Launcher 2 $ 0
Java JVM Manager
3 - 0
Switch between different versions of Java
Java JDK Version Integrity 2 - 0
Java NoClassDefFoundError Amanuensis 1 $ 0
Java Powered TV Commercials 3 $$$ 0
Java Source Code Beautifier 5 - 10
Java Source Code Presenter 2 $ 2
Java Source Code SCID:
8 $$$$$$$ 3
browser/editor
Java Swing Amanuensis 1 - 0
Java Swingizer: converts AWT (Advanced Windowing Toolkit) to Swing and back 1 $ 0
Javadoc tools 3 $ 0
JColourChooser 2 $ 2
JDK installation polisher 2 - 0
JDK Version Integrity 2 - 0
JDisplay Source Code Presenter 4 $ 0
JSP Replacer 5 $$$$ 0
JVM Manager
3 - 0
Switch between different versions of Java
Kettle 4 $$$$ 0
Keyboard Illustrator 1 $ 0
Keyword Reorderer 1 - 0
Kickers 2 $ 0
Kindle Cracker 4 $$$ 0
Kitchen Computer
3 $$$$ ?
possibly client-server
laundromat controller 3 $$$ 3
LazyString:
a smarter younger 1 - 0
brother to String and StringBuffer
LifeCoach 3 $ 0
Link Replacer 2 $$ 0
Linkcop Clone 1 $$ 1
LINT for Java 6 $$ 1
Localisation Tool
3 $$$$ 10
client-server

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Estimated
Commercial
Project Difficulty Existing
Potential
Implementations
Long Distance Speeddialer :
Local Internet Connection Dialer 1 $$$$ 0
for Travellers.
MAC Ethernet Address 3 $ 0
Macro Bar 2 $ 0
Mailreader/Newsreader
7 $$$$$ 0
client-server
Mall Balls
6 $$$$ 0
client-server
Memory-free Watch 2 $$$ 0
Menu and Keystroke Configurator 4 $ 0
Method Finder 1 - 0
MFT Tidier 3 $$ 0
Microwave Tweaker 1 $ 0
Mini Map Maker
1 $ 0
possibly client-server
Money Pump 4 $$$$ 30?
Monkey Darts 2 $$$ 0
Motherboard finder/recommender/comparison shopper 3 $$$ 0
Movie Star Recognizer
2 $ 0
client-server
Multilingual PADs 1 $ 0
Name That Composer 2 $ 0
Name That Tune
6 $$ 2
client-server
Napster Clone
4 $$$$ 0
client-server
NAT Cracker 4 $$ 0
Native Class Amanuensis 2 $ 0
Neural Net Project 3 - 0
NoClassDefFoundError Amanuensis 1 $ 0
Notetaker 2 $ 0
Notifier 2 $$$ 0
Olympic Connector 3 $$$$ 0
On-Line Books
4 $$$$$$ 0
client-server
One-Trick Optimiser 4 $ 0
Outage Notifier 2 $$ 0
PAD file tidier 1 $ 0
PAD Maintainer 1 $ 0
PADSite Manager 3 $$ 1000
PAD Spam Filter 2 $ 0
Password Eliminator 3 $$$$ 0
Password Protector 1 $ 10
Path/Classpath tool 1 $ ?
Pentium
access CPUID, CPUSERNO and 1 $ 0
RDTSC (Read Time Stamp Counter) Pentium instructions
People Finder
2 $$$ 4
client-server
People’s Parcel Delivery
3 $$$$ 0
client-server
Phone Announcer 2 $$ 0
POD 4 $$ 0
Planetary Mail Protocol
3 $$$$ 5
client-server
Picture Picker 2 $$ 0
Pill Reminder 1 $$ 50
Plant Identifier 3 $$$ 0
Population Clock 2 $$ 0

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Estimated
Commercial
Project Difficulty Existing
Potential
Implementations
Pornography Viewer
3 $$$$$ 0
client-server
Prebranded Software Rental:
with Auto Updates 6 $$$$$$$$ 0
client-server
Preferences Explorer 2 $$$ 0
Product Recommender 2 $$ 0
Pronunciation Map 2 $ 0
Proofreader Font 2 $ 0
Public Cell Phones 3 $$$$ 0
PUT DATA amanuensis 0 - 0
PUT Language:
5 $ 0
for Specifying Instructions
Hi Fi Radio and TV Interviews 3 $$$$ 0
Radioactivity Simulator 2 $ 0
Radio Subtitles 3 $$$ 0
Reading C Structs 3 $ 0
Rearranger (Java source Tidy) 3 $ 2
Recipe Optimiser 2 $$$$$ 0
Regex Composer 3 $ 0
Regex Debugger 1 $ 0
Regex Proofreader 2 $ 0
Regex Tidier 0 - 0
Regex Utility 3 $$$ 0
Registry Poker 2 $ 1
Registry Tidier 2 $ 0
Reimplement Standard classes 2 $ 0
Registration Key Generator 2 $ 10
Reinstaller and Application Mover 2 $$$ 0
Reorder File Contents 2 $ 0
Replicator Plus: keep broadcast/plagiarised files up to date. 2 $$$ 0
Restaurant Costing 1 $$$ 1
RFC Conversion To HTML 1 $$ 0
Rhythm Tutor 2 $ 0
Robust DVD 2 $$ 0
Root Certificate Installer 1 $$ 0
Faster Internet Routing 3 $$$ 0
Sanity Checker 3 $$$ 1
SAX :
File Transfer Protocol 3 $ 0
datacommunications

8 $$$$$$$ 3

SCID (Source Code In Database)

Java browser/editor
Screen Capture OCR 4 $$$ 0
Schema Mill 2 $$ 0
Scrolling Mad Bee Style 3 - 0
SCROOM website avoider 3 $$ 0
Search Engine Sharpener
3 $ 0
datacommunications
Secure Police Radio
4 $$$$ 0
datacommunications
Serialized File Recovery 2 $$$ 0
Shopping List 1 $$ 20

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Estimated
Commercial
Project Difficulty Existing
Potential
Implementations
Shivering Man 4 $$ 0
Simulate an Old Klunker Computer
for testing new apps to make sure
1 $ 0
they will run quickly enough on
old machines.
Site Down Service 21 $$ 0
Smart Console 2 $ 0
Smart Furnace Thermostat 2 $$$ 0
Smart FTP Uploads
5 $$ 1
datacommunications
Smart Layouts 5 $ 0
Smart Scale 2 $$$$$ 0
Sort Bakeoff 0 - 0
Sort Comparator Amanuensis 3 - 0
Sort Visualiser 0 - 0
Spam Filter
2 $$ 10
datacommunications
Spell Checker 2 $$ 0
Spell Checker for HTML 1 $$ 0
Spinning Globe 2 $$ 0
Spreadsheet Amanuensis 3 $$$ 0
Sponsor Watch 3 $$$ 0
SQLStomp 2 $ 0
Stamp Calculator 0 $ 0
State Finder 4 - 0
Stay In Touch Database
4 $ 1
client-server
StringBuffer 1 - 0
StringBuilder Optimiser 2 $ 0
Struct reader Amanuensis 3 - 0
Submit-It Clone
2 $ 40
datacommunications
Subway Sandwich Shop Order Taker 2 $$$$$$ 0
Super Compressor 3 $ 1
Suspended Animation:
3 $ 0
Fast Program Load
Swing Amanuensis 1 - 0
Swingizer: converts AWT to Swing and back 1 $ 0
Sync 1 - 10
Systray Deleecher 2 $ 1
Talk Like A Moron
3 $$$$ 0
A George Bush Speech impersonator.
Tel-ID, telephonic ID verification 4 $$$$$ 0
Text Speak English Translator 1 $$$$$ 0
Text To HTML 2 $$ 0
5000 year Time Capsule 2 $$$ 0
Tractable AI Problem 7 - 0
Trump Gambling Parlour 3 $$$ 0
Traffic Simulator 4 $$$ ?
Transcription Amanuensis 3 $$$$ 0
TV Controller 5 $$$ 2
Truthteller App 3 $$$ 1
TV Listings 3 $$$ 1
Tweakable Optimiser 4 $$$$ 0
TweakDUN Clone
1 $ 1
datacommunications
Uncrackable Encryption 1 $$ 0
Unicode Font 4 $$ 0
Unique Number Server
1 $ 50
client-server

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Estimated
Commercial
Project Difficulty Existing
Potential
Implementations
Units of Measure Localisation 2 $ 0
Universal Data Format 3 $$ 0
Untouch
avoid changed file dates on files 1 $$ 1
that did not really change
uPath to Relative
convert simple uPath href notation to 0 $ 0
../../ relative notation.
Version Checker 2 $$ 1
Virtual Inventions 2 $$$$ 0
Virtual Makeup 3 $$$$ 0
Voice Compression 4 $$ 0
Voice Pitch Correction 3 $$$$ 0
Watermark Backgrounds 2 $$ 2
Wave The Flag 4 - 3
WebRing Controller
4 $ 1
client-server
Weight Tracking
1 $ 10
possibly client-server
Welcome Wagon
1 - 0
datacommunications
What Changed? 0 - 2
What’s That Char? 0 - 0
Which and What Utilities 1 - 0
Wildcard FilenameFilter
1 - 0
positive and negative wildcards
Windows Explorer Replacement 3 $$ 0
Windows Fixer 3 $$$$ 0
Xenu clone
1 $$$ 1
datacommunications
Xerlin clone: XML (extensible Markup Language) team project 1 - 25
XML Compactor 1 $$ 0
XREF for Java classes 2 $ 0
Yet Another Debugging Technique 2 $$ 0

Which Project to Pick?

People often write me and ask Which project should I pick? as if I knew their hearts and abilities. Here is a strategy. First narrow down the choices to the ones
that look about your level of difficulty. Then narrow down the ones to your interest in financial potential. Then narrow down projects to ones that involve servers
or do not. Now weed out ones that look boring or esoteric to you. Now look for the project with most heart. Do you care about the result? You will need to care
in the times ahead when the hard work comes of implementing, documenting, researching and futzing about to get it to work. For children, video games are the
usual choice. For adults, it can be anything. Further, you don’t have to pick one of my projects. Let one of mine inspire you to create one your own. Think in
terms of your own interests and hobbies. What would be useful? Think about the frustrations you have had with software. What sort of better mousetrap does the
world need?

Learning More
In my email inbasket each day are two or three requests for more information about one or more of these student projects. I don’t have any materials other than
what I have provided here unless I explicitly mentioned that I did. Most often these requests come from students in third world countries, but sometimes they
come from commercial developers.

Students imagine I have complete detailed specs written on every class. The key skill students must learn is writing the spec and doing the overall design of a
decently large project. Any boob can code given a detailed class specification. In the real world you are never handed tidy perfectly-specified little problems than
can be handled with two or three pages of code. In the real world, you won’t even get project outlines anywhere near as detailed as I have given you here. They
will never contain any implementation hints as my outlines do. You have to pull teeth to get even the vaguest information about what the program should do.
You have to write prototype systems. Only then are your users smart enough to tell you what they really wanted, or are you smart enough to suggest to them
possible options they might enjoy.

My advice for a student who thinks a project is too difficult, is to create a sub project that he thinks he might tackle successfully, or try a simpler different project
entirely. After that experience, he can add a bit more complexity. Trying to solve the problem all at once just leads to overwhelm. Don’t feel embarrassed that the
sub project would have no practical use. It is just a stepping stone.

Though I have no additional materials to send you, I am willing to answer specific questions about the projects. I will normally add that material into the project
descriptions for others too.

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For team projects underway you can join Asynchrony, Enhydra or SourceForge.

The Madness of Kellyanne Conway

Trump is slowly driving Kellyanne Conway mad. He sends her out into the world to defend the infensible lies, his flipflops, his denials of reality and
his unconstitutional plans. The only way to do what he commands is to deny reality, lie outrageously and to deny there is any problem when people
complain that she is spouting nonsense. She got to the point where she was effectively claiming Trump lives in an alternative reality, and she is
reporting the facts in his private universe, with her famous alternative facts. You could understand what she is doing as cynical demagogic mind
fucking. But she went over the moon inventing the Bowling Green massacre that never happened. She imagined she would get away with because so
many Trump supporters swallowered her lies in past. She seems to think there is no practical difference between what she makes up and what
actually happened.

Usually when this happens to people, we commit them to an institution in a low-stress environment to give them time to reconnect reality. If we
allow Trump to keep abusing Kellyanne this way, she could well go postal. Trump should think ahead. If she snaps, she knows far too much. Trump
would have to have her killed.

~ Roedy (born:1948-02-04 age:69)

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