Project Ideas & Technologies

Make sure your team chooses a project that is feasible as well as fun! This list is in no way comprehensive; feel free to select something totally different, as long as it is doable!

Note: mobile applications are discouraged as project ideas. If a team really wants to create a mobile app, they could look into progressive web apps.

Front-End Website

For students who have gone through the Web 101 and Web 102 material, this may be a good option. This could be a fairly beginner-friendly choice, but it could still allow for some very creative and interesting projects! Here are some ideas:

  • Band/Artist website
  • Business website
  • Sports team website
  • School website
  • Story/book website
  • Personality quiz/calculator maker
  • Visual art using canvas
    • Note: visual art can also be created using Processing

Technologies

There are some basic technologies that will definitely be useful:

Beyond that, there are some other front-end frameworks that might be worth trying:

Full-Stack Web Application

For students who have gone through the Web 201 material, this may be a good option. You can build pretty much anything as a web application these days, and practicing using this paradigm can be incredibly useful! Here are some project ideas:

  • To-Do List
  • Recipe database
  • Blog application
  • Forum
  • Live chat
  • Marketplace (like craigslist)
  • Social media (like Twitter)
  • Movie/Music reviews (like Letterboxd)
  • Jackbox or Kahoot-style game
  • Any sort of database

Technologies

There are several technology stacks for full-stack web development.

Console Application

There are many possible console-based applications that a team could try to build, and a variety of technologies use! This option may be good for beginners, but keep in mind that the user interface will be much more sparse than other types of applications. For a text-based application, the project options are somewhat limited... but there are still some possibilities!

  • Text-based story or RPG
  • Choose your own adventure game
  • Calculator (like Wolfram Alpha)

Technologies

A good number of languages can be used to build a console application, including:

Video Game

There are a ton of ways to build a video game, and it can be a really fun way to practice programming skills! A video game could be pretty much anything, so the project ideas will be up to the teams. However, there are some technologies that might be helpful:

API Integration

There are a ton of interesting APIs that allow developers to integrate their applications with a variety of services. Typically, an API will have libraries for some different programming languages. Here are some possibilities:

More Python Possibilities

Here are some other possibilities, specifically based on the Python 201 material:

  • Discord bot - make a chat bot or another bot that does something automatically!
  • Web scraper - grab data from any website, and use it in your application!

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