I'm currently doing the AQA course for A level computer science and 20% of the marks are awarded for a non examination assessment, which can pretty much be whatever you want it to be. Here's a few example ideas AQA give...
Some of which are painfully vague.
A full description of the assessment can be found HERE.
I'm merely curious as to what people here would do for this.
It's a 50 hour project, so you can't really do anything crazy big here.
Hi , I'm currently nearing the end of my AQA project for compSci. ( 2 weeks left).
Most people at my College did stock inventory tracking projects. But a few people did some more exciting things.
What do you know you don't want to do ?? is probably a better place to start as there is a lot of things you could do.
I've currently no clue. Again, I'm merely curious as to what people here would take the opportunity to do.
Looking for inspiration!
The game of life is always fun. I've written hundreds of implementations of cellular automata (CA) and I still feel like there is more I could play around with. Conway's game of life is fun, but fuck if people don't have a limited mindset on the subject of CA.
Make them wish they knew half the shit you did and double or nothing them. Write a program that:
What's that he said? Solve a maze with CA? Yup: http://realtimecollisiondetection.net/blog/?p=57
If you can't find something interesting to do with CA then I don't know what to say. Try fractals maybe?
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Machine learning is also relatively easy. Make up a challenge, have a computer try to solve it, accept that it probably won't work, document how much it sucked.
Jokes aside, machine learning isn't as hard to get into as you might think. Genetic algorithms are also very appropriate to this assignment in my opinion.
This is fascinating. Thank you!
