3rd Year Students looking for Software Developmemt Project

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Good Day,

We are a group of 3rd year students studying Business Informatics at Tshwane University of Technology(TUT).
One of the requirements of this programme is that in the third year we find a client and develop an application for them.
So please if anyone out there is interested, please let me know. The particular programming language can vary but preferably VB or Java.
 
Ooooooh, I have a program you can develop for me, however, I know for a fact you won't do it properly or even know HOW to ;)

It'll take me 40 min to do but I'm lazy.... lol....
 
AcidRaZor said:
Ooooooh, I have a program you can develop for me, however, I know for a fact you won't do it properly or even know HOW to ;)

It'll take me 40 min to do but I'm lazy.... lol....
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But thats why they need experience, I have a project you can do, then I spend all day at home or sleeping ;)
 
AcidRaZor said:
Ooooooh, I have a program you can develop for me, however, I know for a fact you won't do it properly or even know HOW to ;)

It'll take me 40 min to do but I'm lazy.... lol....
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With these 3rd year project, I don't think they're intended to ever go directly into production. As Veroland says, it's all about experience.

It would be cool to get some free labor to prototype some ideas, but with possible IP issues, is it worth taking the chance?
 
Go have a look at freshmeat.net.
A lot of projects. Filter by language, and then search for ones you like. Check what is on the to-do list for the project or suggest something to the owner.
 
Thank you all for the responses. Ive just looked at Freshmeat.
The thing with our project is they want a client here in south africa. And also they want us to get into the whole systems/business analysis. Its not so much about the end product but about the processes. There has to be all the relevant documents i.e scope statements, budgets, WBS etc. The other important point is looking for a client who might want to employ us if we impress them.
 
Ptretoria <- not very impressive at all

And the problem is you won't really find people willing to hand over a project students will manage and then lateron maybe even hire you unless they're huge-assed corporations like IBM. Friend of mine got a bursary from IBM and had work etc... you'll be lucky to find such a company. Time = money. Only tip I can give you is to make up your own company, do the designs/processes and hand in the final project. Then use that as leverage when you look for work...
 
To add to Acid, getting Junior people onto a project always consumes time and effort from the senior people and right now in this financial climate few companies can afford that.
 
AcidRaZor said:
Ooooooh, I have a program you can develop for me, however, I know for a fact you won't do it properly or even know HOW to ;)

It'll take me 40 min to do but I'm lazy.... lol....
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Either you have a HUGE ego or you are underestimating 3rd year projects! I'm not sure what the deal is with TUT but at Tuks the projects weren't the sort of thing you could do in a day or even a week.
Considering I wrote a Neural Network in a day (from scratch) that could correctly identify text as either English or Afrikaans with 100% success rate (on quite a wide set of testing data) from a small training set and most of my group members were in the same league so I don't think we qualify as bad programmers. There were a number other things we wrote also but I remember the NN being fairly intricate.
 
Gnome said:
Either you have a HUGE ego or you are underestimating 3rd year projects! I'm not sure what the deal is with TUT but at Tuks the projects weren't the sort of thing you could do in a day or even a week.
Considering I wrote a Neural Network in a day (from scratch) that could correctly identify text as either English or Afrikaans with 100% success rate (on quite a wide set of testing data) from a small training set and most of my group members were in the same league so I don't think we qualify as bad programmers. There were a number other things we wrote also but I remember the NN being fairly intricate.
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99% of the time varsity-learned folk over-complicates the programming required to solve an issue and usually takes quite a while to solve it. I've seen it a million times (well not a million times, but a LOT) in my past 10 years or so experience. Yes, I have a big ego, but I have letters of recommendation and several client emails that boost the small little fact that I'm good at what I do ;)

In any case, I'd much rather hire a varsity student than someone learning by themselves DEPENDING on their grasp of what is set in front of them (you know, stuff like common sense, logical thinking, being able to type faster than 2 words a minute etc)

But that's another discussion for another day...
 
VB was just an example. We are not really confined to VB alone. The thing is we are not software development students. Programmin is a very small part of the course. hevnce the VB.
 
Hi Kudzanal, if you are still looking PM me with an email address. Not For Profit Organisation, so no money, but we need an application to manage our members.
 
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