💻 Capstone Project

End-of-the-Year Project

The final part of this course is dedicated to pursuing an open-ended passion project! Over the next few months, you will all get to dive into (almost) any kind of coding that interests you – whether you want to build an impressive program for your portfolio using skills we’ve learned in class, or explore something totally new in the field of technology.

⚠️ You will be required to plan ahead, set goals, and manage your time effectively in order to complete your project by the end of the year. The criteria for a “completed project” will look different for everyone, but ultimately, the goal is to create a working program that you are proud of and demonstrates advanced skills or new knowledge.

📚 Ideas & Resources

Python Programming

• Build a creative Python web-app that implements the Flask techniques we learned in Unit 3

  The possibilities are endless here! You could make something fun and interactive for your friends to use, or a useful app for tracking/organizing certain information in your daily life, or a page that showcases your interests and hobbies, etc. I would expect this app to be more complex than any of the projects created in the last unit.

• Combine skills: create a Flask application that incorporates data visualization (pandas, matplotlib, seaborn) from Unit 2

  Example: This Timestamp Analyzer for Google Docs is a web-app I made that processes text data and generates a bar chart.

• Explore the world of machine learning & artificial intelligence by following self-guided online tutorials. I recommend Kaggle’s Python courses in Intro to Machine Learning and Intro to Game AI and Reinforcement Learning.

  NOTE: If you choose to pursue a project that requires spending time on tutorials like this, that will be factored into the expectations for your project. You wouldn’t be required submit a project of the same level of complexity as I would expect for a Python web-app, but make sure to produce some sort of working program that demonstrates creative effort.

Other Languages & Software

• Want to learn how to develop games? Here are my recommended paths:
  • Unity Game Engine that uses the C# programming language, which is similar to Java.
• Interested in cybersecurity? Here are some ideas:
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• Want to make this a group project? Propose an idea of what you’d like to create as a team, and an explanation of how you plan to allocate the work between you all.
• Missing Java? Didn’t think so… but if you do, let me know and I can show you some advanced projects that students have made.

💡 Let me know if you’d like a custom-made lesson, cheatsheet, or code demo! I am happy to write new pages and add them to this unit, by request.