Projects For Programmers

A list of Projects For Programmers.

Anyone out there looking for challenges?

• Area: Software Engineering
• Programming Language
• Design a new Programming Language. Write an Interpreter for the language. 
• Interpreter for your own Lisp.
• Personal Note: While I was in College, I used to dream of inventing - not just an “YAPL” - "Yet Another Programming Language" but a great programming language that would take the Software World by storm! This project would be a great practice for that yet-to-be-named programming Language!
• Software Engineering Tools
• Write a "mini" Dependency Injection Framework. 
• Write a Code Generation Tool that generates project structure, classes, fields, methods, creates Database from XML / YAML. 
• Examples: 
• Ruby on Rails 
• Spring Roo
• Area: Theoretical Computer Science
• Solve TopCoder [1] and Google Codejam [2] Problems. 
• Area: Intelligence and Data
• Implement Natural Language Parsing.
• Use your Dependency Injection Framework to inject different Algorithms.
• Top down Parsing 
• Chart Parsing
• Implement Minimax Algorithm with Alpha-Beta pruning on a simple game.
• Use your Dependency Injection Framework to inject different games into the Algorithm (so that you can inject any game you wish). 
• Prototype a Web Search Engine on a small number of Wikipedia pages.
• Analyze Political Survey Data with 
• Hadoop, Mahout
• Spark, MLib
• Prototype Web-based Email with anti-spamming feature.
• Implementation of Machine Learning (Bayes)
• Area: Systems
• Mobile Development
• Mini Android Apps
• Develop a “Who wants to be a Millionaire” App.
• Virtualization
• Design a Virtual Machine. 
• Database
• Design and implement a prototype RDBMS Server (RDBMS lite).
• Design and implement a prototype NoSQL Server
• Graph Database Server.
• Write a Mini Web Browser.
• Use Google’s JavaScript V8 Engine.
• Networking & Distributed Computing
• Design and Implement a new Application Layer Protocol.
• Protocol that supports Internet Of Things, Cloud, Mobile.
• New Full-duplex protocol on top of HTTP 
• Current:
• WebSocket 
• Comet
• Prototype your own Mapreduce framework.
• Prototype an HTTP Server.
• Use Node.JS
• Prototype an E-Mail Server. 
• Write a Django CMS on Google App Engine (datastore).
• Write a Distributed Application with Java Spring Framework.
• Write a PC^2 equivalent Software for Programming Contests.
• Write Personal News / Blog Reader and Bookmark Manager for personal use.
• Design Ebook App.
• Interactive HTML5 EBook with advanced Mobile Interactions.

References

1. TopCoder
2. Google Codejam