EPTI don't know about people that will be rating your project, but the word "anime" might turn some people off immediately and influence their judgment. On the other hand, if they're anime fans this might work to your advantage. Seems a bit risky to me. Were I you, I'd go with something generic (not something boring, you still need to feel enthusiastic about it, but something that's pretty neutral).
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Manit0u
Poland17743 Posts
I don't know about people that will be rating your project, but the word "anime" might turn some people off immediately and influence their judgment. On the other hand, if they're anime fans this might work to your advantage. Seems a bit risky to me. Were I you, I'd go with something generic (not something boring, you still need to feel enthusiastic about it, but something that's pretty neutral). | ||
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Nesserev
Belgium2760 Posts
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Manit0u
Poland17743 Posts
I'm not sure that's even feasible, but food for thought. | ||
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
I'm trying to count all the characters in a text file and print that out to the user. So far I was able to get it to count all the words present in the file, but have spent too long trying to figure out characters. + Show Spoiler + static String fileLocation; static Scanner in; static int lengthInCharacters; static int lengthInWords; public static void getTotalWords() { while(in.hasNext()) { in.next(); lengthInWords++; } System.out.println("Total number of words is: " + lengthInWords); } This does exactly what I need it to. It increments the lengthInWords variable and prints it out to show the user how many words are in the text file. public static void getTotalCharacters() { while(in.hasNextByte()) { in.hasNextByte(); lengthInCharacters++; } System.out.println("Total number of characters is: " + lengthInCharacters); } This I can't get to work though. The lengthInCharacters value isn't incrementing and returns 0. When I switched the while loop to 'while(in.hasNext)' instead of 'hasNextByte', the program would get stuck prompting me for input. So I'm not exactly sure how to write this to go through the text file one character at a time and increment the variable correctly. | ||
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icystorage
Jollibee19350 Posts
in.hasNextByte() is being called again in the while loop o_o doesnt that make your program loop forever? | ||
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
Total number of characters is: 0 when I run it. | ||
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icystorage
Jollibee19350 Posts
http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/util/scanner_hasnextbyte.htm look at the example below. | ||
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Epishade
United States2267 Posts
Still stuck though. I see what you meant with how I called it inside the loop again. It should have been this. public static void getTotalCharacters() { while(in.hasNextByte()) { in.nextByte(); lengthInCharacters++; } System.out.println("Total number of characters is: " + lengthInCharacters); } but this doesn't work either. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17743 Posts
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icystorage
Jollibee19350 Posts
On October 12 2014 10:53 Epishade wrote: Ah crap. Thought byte would include chars. Still stuck though. I see what you meant with how I called it inside the loop again. It should have been this. but this doesn't work either. nextByte still doesnt work on chars =/ http://www.tutorialspoint.com/java/util/scanner_nextbyte.htm | ||
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MysteryMeat1
United States3292 Posts
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MysteryMeat1
United States3292 Posts
On October 12 2014 10:34 icystorage wrote:
in.hasNextByte() is being called again in the while loop o_o doesnt that make your program loop forever? doesn't hasnextmethod not move the cursor? | ||
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FFGenerations
7088 Posts
On October 12 2014 02:34 Nesserev wrote: First of all, I agree with Manit0u. The longer it takes for people to get familiar with, and take in the context of your project, the worse it probably is for a final year project. Normally, it's the other way around... your client knows everything and has to convey all their thoughts to you, but final year projects are different. You have to introduce the people that will be rating your project to the whole idea that otakus make lists of animes on the internet and fanatically rant about it. You will have to make clear to them why you make some of these design choices: do people use this? why share the lists in .jpg? ... Otakus and anime lovers have their own antics that might be very strange to them. They probably will have a very difficult time to understand everything, and might look at things badly, even though those things are what otakus/anime lovers want. It will be one big mindfuck misunderstanding... Second of all, yes... this is too easy for a final year project. It basically comes down to: - using an API (ezpz) and a database (ezpz) - generating an image (ezpz) All of this requires you to know the basics of programming, and how to use three or four tools. There are probably not a lot of opportunities to show them your worth: - depth of knowledge - using slick design patterns and algorithms - research (!!!) The central problem is... it's just that web applications are fucking boring. That said, everything that is used to make web applications work, is very interesting: - Why don't you design an API, and show that it works in your application? - Why don't you implement your own RDBMS... there are books that guide you through the process of implementing a working RDBMS. It won't be as efficient as most RDMBS's, but still, it shows your depth of knowledge. - Why don't you implement your own (virtual) operating system or server; maybe an emulator? - ... You should show them more qualities and interest than just "Yo, I can build web applications". Thanks for your replies both. 1) I don't honestly feel like explaining an anime list image generator is a big deal. I mean I can example a ton of existing anime list/mobile apps etc. The concept is unique in the whole world (maybe lol) which is a pretty fucking big bonus point right there. 2) You say "why don't you design an API (and show it works in your app)?" . would you mind please giving me a theoretical example of something like this? (i will go google "API" a lot in the meantime) 3) You say "implemnent your own relational dataabnase management system?" Do you mean create my own database software?? Or just use a database in my application? I think you just broke my mind lol 4) you said There are probably not a lot of opportunities to show them your worth: - depth of knowledge - using slick design patterns and algorithms - research (!!!)" So this is where my real question is. isn't there a ton of stuff that can be researched into optimising performance for my system? for example comparison between using ajax and possible alternatives? between using html5 frontend or something else? how can i the system perform better and benchmark it? what technology is more compatible on devices? Spazer, after calling my idea "dead end project, too broad and too simple which will work just fine however you do it", later on suggested i could improve the project by e.g. looking at: "say you wanted to focus on the optimization of the database search. How can a search be made more efficient on mobile hardware? How can I leverage the benefits of mobile hardware to cache results and speed up the search? Does this reduce power draw and increase battery life? This kind of topic can go as deep as you like, even down to hardware level." so i am confused now. is my project viable or not? what sort of things can i focus my attention on in order to up the investigative nature of the project e.g. in order to improve performance on X devices or in X fashion with regards to calling the API or utlising own database or frontend or X? THANKS PLEASE REPLY I FEEL LIKE WE ARE GETTING SOMEWHERE. ANYONE think im going to read about cloud gaming next, someone said make a game using cloud gaming coz there are a ton of techniques to research.... | ||
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ZenithM
France15952 Posts
On October 12 2014 15:49 MysteryMeat1 wrote: doesn't hasnextmethod not move the cursor? Not sure about the double negative there, but HasNext methods don't advance the cursor. | ||
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Nesserev
Belgium2760 Posts
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MinoMoto
Latvia107 Posts
I need to create program what checks if password is correct. The problem is that it must check also symbol number // (for example my password is asdfg (5symbols) if i write asd (3symbols) it must write password have 5 symbols) How can I get my program to count symbols? | ||
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Shenghi
167 Posts
On October 13 2014 01:33 MinoMoto wrote: Guys I need help in C# I need to create program what checks if password is correct. The problem is that it must check also symbol number // (for example my password is asdfg (5symbols) if i write asd (3symbols) it must write password have 5 symbols) How can I get my program to count symbols? string.Length? | ||
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Blisse
Canada3710 Posts
My school judges the four year projects on technical complexity and impact. The idea is that either your idea stands as a strong research/intellectual project or as a possible startup pursuit. If you're making a basic CRUD app with nothing really cool about the implementation, unless you can sell the CRUD app to thousands of people and get funding for it, then you're going to score low on impact. And a CRUD app is low on technical complexity. If you do a very heavy research-y project, like say translating CPU instructions on the GPU efficiently, depending on how well that goes you will probably get very high marks for technical complexity, which supersedes the low impact marks if you fail that project. Your fourth year project probably isn't at the same scale as mine and maybe the goal of the project is just to use your experiences to build anything you like (in which case go for it), but at the same time other people (programmers) are going to look at your app and go, so you used and API or scraped the site, stored the data in a list, and then made an image? ... is that it? The concept is unique sure, but it's not like it's difficult or that it kicks ass. Which means you're saying your 4 years of study have culminated in making an API consumer and image generator? If you can demonstrate high technical complexity in your application then sure, but you have to think that your idea of high technical complexity differs from other people's idea of it, and while they're not expecting you to make the next iPhone, they do expect something that's more complex than an API consumer and image generator. | ||
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Shield
Bulgaria4824 Posts
On October 13 2014 01:33 MinoMoto wrote: Guys I need help in C# I need to create program what checks if password is correct. The problem is that it must check also symbol number // (for example my password is asdfg (5symbols) if i write asd (3symbols) it must write password have 5 symbols) How can I get my program to count symbols? If password is properly encrypted (e.g. MD5), are you even able to tell its length? I thought it was one way process. Of course, I understand if a string is used instead but I'm asking in general. | ||
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Belgium2760 Posts
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