Help with my ICT Courework - Ideas Appreciated!

merlinormartin

How about a Hotel booking system

amcluesent

How about a criminal record system for criminals who are convicted abroad. Then sell it for ££ millions to the Home Office - the numpties there need one!

superscaper

amcluesent wrote:

How about a criminal record system for criminals who are convicted abroad. Then sell it for ££ millions to the Home Office - the numpties there need one!

Lol, you really think the Government would be interested in something that would increase efficiency and productivity. That would only happen if it was an expensive project that claimed to do that but doesn't actually work.

amcluesent

>you really think the Government would be interested<

To be realistic the ICT coursework should include 2 years spent on a 'technology demonstrator', ensuring that all stakeholders were agreed in principle that the project could move to a limited pilot, while simultaneously running the old system in parallel, doubling headcount. A report with the benefits case would then be submitted to the Minister for consideration, after which an invitation to tender would be published in the European Journal. After best and final offers (6 months later and at 500% what the private sector would pay), the selected system integrator would spend 2 years coding the system from scratch using unproven but CV enhancing technology, before finding that the original requirements were hopelessly outdated. Public sector ICT...never has so much been billed in consultancy, by so few, at such cost to so many tax-payers

thomas01155

You could do it on cars
like make, model, year ,registration ,color no of doors and price or popstars ,footballers,countries in the world ect lol i just read it off our homework.

James_Bond

Cheers everyone!

Thanks button not working too well at the moment.

wolfman

Lol, I did a Video Rental System back in the day too (about 7 years ago). It's a good system to use as there's plenty you can do and it's quite flexible. Plus if you finish with time to spare, there's lots more you can do to the system.

superscaper

wolfman wrote:

Plus if you finish with time to spare, there's lots more you can do to the system.

That's a very good point. Sometimes it's hard to estimate how long a project will take. When I wrote my program for my computing project it was very modular and was set up to easily be expanded by adding additional modules (in my case different teaching subjects etc) without having to alter the structure of the main program. It's worth thinking about a project where you could easily add features/content if you have time but still have what looks like a complete project if you don't have time.

wolfman

Did exactly the opposite for my major project at university. Learnt from that mistake. Came up with what was a great system but it was far too much and I lost marks for lack of completion (despite working like a dog to get most of it done).

As SS has said, and I kind of pointed out. A system like the video shop is fairly simple on the outlook, and if you're pushed for time you should be able to finish it. But should you have more time, or want to make sure you get an A, there's plenty of extra "modular" stuff that you can add in.

punk_football

Ive thanked everyone aswell, imdoing exactly the same thing, i think im doing the online dating thing, that sounds brilliant :beer: :j