Make your own project: suggestions?

[Hitmen]

I have a project that I haven't started yet. Not surprisingly at all, it is due tomorrow. This is easily the hardest project I have ever had because it is so... open. What I have to do is take everything we've learned this year, and: "Create a piece of art, make a video, constuct a deries of poems, or compose a piece of music... choose whatever you like to make the end product. You may not create a poster." My problem here, is that the creative portion of my brain is pretty much nonfunctional. I can't draw, I can't write, I lack musical talent, and she took out the easy bullshit option of throwing everything on a poster.

The time constraint is not a worry, as I don't sleep and have almost all of tomorrow free to work on it if necessary. But as we have some bright and creative people here, I though I would try to make other people do the thinking for me. What do you think is a good way to take whateverthehell we learned and turn it into something interesting that I could present to the class? I've been sitting around all day thinking about this, and I still have no idea what the hell I'm going to do.

[leet_muffin]

Well, uhh, the fuck have you learned this year?

[Hitmen]

Well, uhh, the fuck have you learned this year?

The subject matter isn't exactly important, the project is about taking it and presenting it creatively (an ability which I so sorely lack). But if you're really interested this is what we've learned about/discussed:
-The brain, how it works,
-Creativity
-Censorship
-We wrote: A folktale, A children's story, A science fiction story
-We read the books Brain Sex (which sounds way more interesting then it actually is) and Farenheit 451.

I found my syllabus for the class and apparently it was supposed to focus around creativity. Ironic.

[iago]

Anything involving writing a computer program? :)

[Hitmen]

Anything involving writing a computer program? :)

This is where I'm at currently. The problem is that I have to present it. All of the rooms have projectors and stuff, but in the past I've had problems getting java programs to work. That is assuming that this specific teacher has java installed as well, as most of the computers at the school don't. I'm thinking of borrowing one of the laptops from the math department that has a local user account with java and stuff already installed for the CS classes, but I dunno if I'm going to be able to. My guess is I will be, since my teacher loves me.

But as of right now, I'm going to write a stupid trivia game because it's the only thing I can think of / have enough time to do. If all else fails, at least I'll have done something somewhat productive for an hour.

[leet_muffin]

Know any grindcore drummers? Just an idea... It's creative, and if you do it like Legion of Doom, it could involve censorship. And people would wonder how your brain works. Just make sure and do one thing: if you're playing on a guitar hero guitar, throw it at the drummer before you tackle the drumset.

[Joe]

lol..

It'd be so awesome to get a grindcore thing set up in school. Too bad nobody'll ever do it. :(

[Hitmen]

I finished it ~7 minutes before I had to present. I got a 100% (which counts for 20% of my semester grade.... woohoo) even though it didn't work exactly as I had hoped. Most of the time was spent lining up the controls on the UI, I fucking suck at that.

Know any grindcore drummers? Just an idea... It's creative, and if you do it like Legion of Doom, it could involve censorship. And people would wonder how your brain works. Just make sure and do one thing: if you're playing on a guitar hero guitar, throw it at the drummer before you tackle the drumset.

My friend did a song. It's pretty badass. Drums are programmed though, he plays guitar. Vocals are him and another friend.

[iago]

Share the project? I wants trivia!

[Hitmen]

Absolutely not. I do not need the kind of shame that would arise if anyone actually saw that code. Maybe I'll get bored some day and rewrite it, and actually implement everything I wanted to. As of right now it only supports multiple choice questions for simplicity, even though I originally wanted to do true/false and single word free response answer type questions as well. I want to make a form to add/delete questions automatically rather than typing them in the (retarded) file format I made up to read them from. Randomizing the multiple choice answers also didn't work... at all. And I was too lazy to fix it.

But yeah, my code blows, and if I ever fix at least the glaringly stupid parts I might share it. I really need a good book on java GUI design and such, we only lightly touched on it in class and I could have a lot of fun making stupid programs if I could do it good. Being able to do stuff that people think is way harder than it really is apparently is a good way to get A's on projects.

[iago]

Then don't share the source, just share the .class. I wanna do trivia! :P

[Hitmen]

Hah, I thought you were interested in the code. It only has three questions in it, so I doubt it would be a very fulfilling experience. (Especially since the first button is always the correct answer, since it didn't randomize.) I actually thought I was going to get nailed for not making up any questions since it meant my project didn't have much substance... but I was wrong. Plus, if I were to share it, I would have to go downstairs and get my flash drive... and that is more effort than it is worth for you. :)

[Chavo]

uh-huh, as if you wouldn't reverse the bytecode

[iago]

Can't a guy just want to do some trivia? :P

But yeah, if there's only 3 questions, nevermind. I thought there would be more :P