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Name: david yun

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Questions/comments about the syllabus or project handout: none at the moment


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Project Title 1: image editor

Brief Description: along the lines of photoshop.  using filters, graphics libraries, etc this program would essentially be an image editor with a vetter user interface than photoshop.

Identify Local Users: 

Assign a 1-5 score for these criteria
        Useful to others: 4
        Has specific users: 4
        Can be scaled up to PC product: 3 
        Divisible: 3
        In C++ on Suns: 2

        Overall: 16

Pros: This program would be one that we could realistically finish for hte course.  Also the minimum specs should be easy to meet while the room to increase extensibility through the adding of numerous other funtions is great.

Cons: not very original.  it has already been done.  May not be challenging enough.

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Project Title 2: smart search engine

Brief Description: to the common user, doing a search using booleans is not only unknown to them, but also the term boolean is likely a term that they do not know/understand.  So the purpose of this project would be to create a web search engine taht allows the user to make a "smarter" search.  This woudl be achieved either through the asking of questions based on teh query or through using language rules to refine the search.

Identify Local Users: 

Assign a 1-5 score for these criteria
        Useful to others: 5
        Has specific users: 5
        Can be scaled up to PC product: 5
        Divisible: 3
        In C++ on Suns: 3

        Overall: 21

Pros: If done in the correct way, this could prove to be a great tool for the casual web user.  

Cons: again not so original, and not sure if this woudl be difficult enough.  Seems like a lot of grunt work would be involved, but maybe not so much in the way of providing a means to learn how to design software.

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Project Title 3: personal planner

Brief Description: this project would be a desktop planner that would give more a feel of the type of planner that a user would hold in his/her hand and less like it was on a computer screen.  The planner would allow for the user to do things such as categorizing entries according to different categories, or by using user defined settings providing a unique planner taht fits specifically to a user's needs.

Identify Local Users:

Assign a 1-5 score for these criteria
        Useful to others: 4
        Has specific users: 4
        Can be scaled up to PC product: 4
        Divisible: 4
        In C++ on Suns: 4

        Overall: 20

Pros: Again the possiblity of adding functions onto the project can be taken wherever the user/programmer wants to take it.  But hte possiblity of creating somthing useful is great and there is not so much pressure to get it working per se, but to make it work right.

Cons: again not so original, although i think that we could make our implementation unique.

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