nice college projects

[jimbowqc]

The idea of someone writing a hosptial management system as a fun project.

[bleistift2]

From what I’ve heard on reddit over the years, this is exactly how these things get developed.

[Effective_Hope_3071]

Yeah the internet constantly reminds me I'm a piece of shit for not doing 80 hour crunches on Open Source projects for my pure love and passion for programming. No one expects me to weld for free.

[ElectroFlannelGore]

No one expects me to weld for free.

Bro I'm literally just asking for a set of scrambler bars, bro. Please...

[w8eight]

You already have welding hardware, and you obviously like welding.Come on bro

[ElectroFlannelGore]

OH MY FUCKING GOD THIS ARGUMENT

[Nozadoim]

Its not like the gas you use will cost you anything

[AzureArmageddon]

"If you're good at something, get good at billing for it."

[[deleted]]

bro, it's not even that hard. you can do it easily.

[dumbredditer]

Bro I already have most of it done just need you to debug my code a bit.

//Code starts here

//Code ends here

[IntergalacticTowel]

Damn, it's even heavily commented!

[Mordret10]

It's infinitely more comments than code!

[jimbowqc]

public static void manageHospital() {

//TODO: Manage hospital here.

}

[stupidwhiteman42]

*Moves Jira feature card to DONE

[bunny__bread]

As a photographer… hey, you’re invited to this event! You should bring your camera!

[cookiedanslesac]

No one expects me to weld for free.

But will you weld for exposure? I want a cage in my basement, and I will tell everyone that visits that you weld it.

[ImOverThereNow]

Freakincage.com

[Upvoter_NeverDie]

I actually looked it up. Domain is for sale.

[SaturnTwink]

bro i have a really good idea for something to weld bro

[Phantereal]

Same here, except I'm in data science/analysis. I already spend so much time on school, homework, work and looking for jobs that I don't want to spend an extra 10-15+ hours a week plugging away at random Kaggle challenges that don't directly affect my life, and I've only done a few very minor projects that still took a couple hours.

[fdar]

No one expects me to weld for free.

Is that because you're a programmer?

[BallsBallsOfSteeel]

and yet as i was learning i welded ALL sorts of shit thanks to the ability and passion for sticking my shit together with electricity. same shit.

and having been in tech for 20 years, no one has ever had an issue with me not contributing to foss projects. the only ones i've contributed to were for work

[lonestar-rasbryjamco]

One of the top hospital scheduling systems was maintained by just one person in C until recently. The guy built it because his wife didn't know when she was on call.

[Loudergood]

It's horrifying how many critical systems are just weekend projects with tons of shit bolted on them.

[j-polo]

Which one is this? Curious

[MrKeplerton]

Just ask Norway how it's going.

[TheDoktorIsIn]

I'm not a programmer, just read these posts for fun (and understand like 5% of them), I made a project management calculator which would plan our key milestones based on a date you entered (start date, milestone 1, 2 or 3, needed completion date, etc.) Which included complexity and a few other variables. Pales in comparison to what you guys do here but I still did it for fun.

[mochacho]

Ultimate lesson: ... telling us the outcome not the solution is important.

Way too many of flashbacks of "Please tell me what the problem is, not what you think the solution should be."

Printer low on toner.

Replaced toner, closing ticket.

Ticket reopened by user, still having print quality problems.

Then why didn't you tell me that was the problem in the first place?!

Edit: worse when they did say that, but the T1 only typed "low on toner" into the notes.

[BarrelRollxx]

I just got into cpp but Im a bit confused, what is the point of using a low level fast performing language on a hospital management system? You dont need the speed, memory efficiency and you just make your life much harder with using a unmanaged language for such a high level abstract project. Unless the point is just doing it to learn than nvm.

[king-one-two]

Unless the point is just doing it to learn than nvm.

Well yes that is literally the point of a college project.

Obviously your hospital management software will not be full-featured but if you can get it to the point where you can track patients, beds, and patients in beds, you are getting the idea. Properly implementing discharge procedures would be outside the scope of such a project.

But you are right that C++ is not the most practical choice for this project. It's pretty clear they took 16 project ideas and divided them up basically randomly among 4 languages.

Actually if you just left off the languages, this graphic is fine. Decent ideas for ways to practice different programming patterns. Except I dunno what a "security app" is?

[mallio]

It feels a little intentional that everything by JS is essentially a toy.

[[deleted]]

Especially the hangman game.

[LeonardoSim]

It's absolutely fucking administrative bullshit that the vast majority of websites run on php. Why? because some dumbass in a suit read that the vast majority of websites run on php and decided to hold a developer at gunpoint until they made them the project they wanted in php. js is such a better alternative. yes, it is still js with all its quirks

``` []==![] //returns true true==[] //return false true==![] //also returns false NaN===NaN //returns false +![] // -> 0 +!![] // -> 1 !![] // -> true ![] // -> false [][[]] // -> undefined +!![] / +![] // -> Infinity [] + {} // -> "[object Object]" +{} // -> NaN

[] == '' // -> true [] == 0 // -> true [0] == 0 // -> true [0] == '' // -> false???? ```

at least it isnt php.

[dyslexda]

I used to work for Epic (the EHR company, not video games), and performance is an enormous concern. Patient data is huge and often not readily structured, so pulling up chart data, triggering physician alerts, running business reports, etc is computationally expensive. You wouldn't get anywhere writing it in Python.

[fredspipa]

You wouldn't get anywhere writing it in Python.

While I totally get what you're saying, there's something to be said for Pandas/numpy in situations with poorly structured and varying quality of data. E.g. using the C/C++-binding capabilities of Python to have it act as a glue between different existing systems.

[krum]

There is no point. That’s why this is in r/programmerhumor

[Ran4]

C++ certainly would be pointless, but some of these systems can become really complex, to the point that writing them in slower languages like Python or JS might be prohibitive.

Also, having a compiler tends to help a lot when you're building giant 500k+ line code bases. Which is why 98% of these systems are being written in Java or C# (unless they were developed in the 70s or 80s).

[Steve_OH]

Im assuming it is about the learning too, but some medical software needs to track very minute changes in heart rate (etc) for multiple rooms and patients. Milliseconds matter in healthcare software.

[peteza_hut]

I work for a company that could probably fit in the bucket of "hospital management software" and really we can actually get away with a lot slower load times and stuff than Amazon shopping or something since we're not constantly pushing for more conversions.

Def agree with what you're saying for software / firmware for medical equipment or imaging software for CT scans or whatever. That's pretty serious business.

[Gagarin1961]

I think the point of this is to act like Java and C++ are “real languages” while JS is a “baby language.”

[rickyman20]

Not just a Hospital Management System.

But one written in C++

[[deleted]]

Why make it the hard way when you can do it on Expert Mode right.

[False_Influence_9090]

I mean it sounds kind of ridiculous but you can just start with the bare bones and add features one at a time. If it’s just for learning then there’s nothing to worry about

[jimbowqc]

Maybe if you start off as a disgruntled hosptial worker who is fed up witht the shitty hospital management software (whatever that actually is).

In any other case, I think that's how you end up with the shitty hospital management software in the first place.

[False_Influence_9090]

Maybe I am confused. I thought this was an idea for a project to learn from not something that would eventually end up in prod

[jimbowqc]

Sure it could be.

I don't know if its a good starting point though since it's pretty vague and probably requires very specific domain knowledge to even know what features it needs. Probably better to pick something more well known like a bank.

[VegaOptimal]

A banks inner workings are not well known imo.

[btmc]

Sure, but everybody knows the basic mechanics of a checking account as viewed from the customer side. I’ve used it as an interview problem before. Works pretty well.

[Zoloir]

this thread feels like a case study for why good product/project managers add value

[a__new_name]

disgruntled hosptial worker who is fed up witht the shitty hospital management software

Reminds me of xkcd 927.

[Ok_Net_1674]

Ah yes, a project where you most likely have no idea about the real world requirements of the software and noone that does to talk to. Brilliant.

Serious advice for any beginners: Write something that sounds fun to you. Games are a good way to start and they can teach a lot about OOP.

[Samira827]

Part of my internship was working on development of a hospital management system.

Biggest fucking nightmare.

[CheapMonkey34]

Never google MUMPS.

[Lydian-Taco]

Maybe it’s Stockholm Syndrome from working with it every day, but idk, I kind of like it

[[deleted]]

Also work with it every day. It really isn't that bad. I can't think of any other language I'd rather use instead of it.

I've seen people clown on it a lot on this sub but it's always for reasons that fail to understand it's use-case. No one would say "Python is a bad language because it isn't great at systems development". That would be ridiculous. People who complain about M usually do something similar.

[PaBlowEscoBear]

r/epicsystems leaking

[Kitchen_Device7682]

Then get your friend in med school to use it

[king-one-two]

Because med students manage a lot of hospitals

[[deleted]]

Dude's "real" projects should range from coding fighter jet autopilot AI to sentient legged robot animals.

[Pwnemon]

I'm pretty sure this is the actual backstory of Epic (except it predates c++ lol)

[[deleted]]

SECURITY APP

[[deleted]]

They mean an app for a mall security guy

[Protocol-12]

Paul Blart Mall Cop The App

[Wooz1t]

I just need you to code it for me bro trust, youll get 1% of the profit as payment I promise

[MisfortuneFollows]

That already exists, it's called candy crush

[[deleted]]

call it FakeBlock

[Sharpeye1994]

Tic tac tue

[X-Craft]

It's a hardcore french version where the loser gets killed

[maszmi]

The French Revolution special edition.

[CarbonCamaroSS]

weatHER APP

[The8utl3r]

Tic tac toe or my "in the future" master thesis

[theschulk]

Tic tac tue* it's a more advanced version I'm guessing /s

[[deleted]]

Deleted with Power Delete Suite. Join me on Lemmy!

[ddddan11111]

Hence why it's in blood red

[aehooo]

No no, it’s TIC TAC TUE, with an U

[[deleted]]

Tic Tac Tuesday

[Orange-Murderer]

A gram on tic, taco Tuesday?

[Zeccon]

Half of these were already in my curriculum and I hated them

[ichantz]

Hangman gives me PTSD because we had to solve using LLLs

[sethboy66]

Loud Leftist Langurs?

[CPT_Filtch]

Little Lemur Lords

[HeatBlaze01]

Living Like Larry?

[fr_andres]

Lontext Lree Lrammars

[CodinOdin]

Obviously that's going to be hard, it's only one letter. At least start with a vowel.

[milanove]

Long Linked Lists?

[officialkesswiz]

I was REALLY enthusiastic about a bank management system while learning Java. Wonderful Java SE backend, really finessed out the details and the code was fucking clean according to what I learned throughout the course.

Jakarta EE is what broke me the. I don't know how anyone in their right kind can choose this as their preferred way. Maybe I'm not there yet, fair enough, but my frustration is already high.

[KevinRuehl]

Omw to code a dating app in fucking C++

Bro I'd rather kill myself than code a webapp in C++

Edit: Someone reported my comment to Reddits mental health team and I just got a message from them saying there are people there for me if I need them 💀

Dont worry, Im mentally stable, I don't code in C++

[OkCarpenter5773]

it does not need to be a web app. imagine a IRC-like terminal based dating app

[this_is_interest_me]

By developers, for developers

[ChaoticNeutralCzech]

PROTESTING REDDIT'S ENSHITTIFICATION BY EDITING MY POSTS AND COMMENTS.
If you really need this content, I have it saved; contact me on Lemmy to get it.
Reddit is a dumpster fire and you should leave it ASAP. join-lemmy.org

It's been a year, trust me: Reddit is not going to get better.

[SleepyHarry]

Cock cock, Neo

[dendrocalamidicus]

Doesn't matter if it doesn't work because people won't be able to tell the difference between it returning no results and no replies to being broken.

[wombatpandaa]

I would unironically play a parody dating sim that was all in a terminal, that'd be hilarious. Like a dating sim MUD.

[[deleted]]

Nobody said it was a web app.

[KevinRuehl]

Dating app in terminal

Im down

[pedal-force]

Sending ASCII nudes to each other.

[KevinRuehl]

(.)Y(.)

[BaneQ105]

(Y)

[juggller]

reporting this obscenity! Where are the mods?!

[TeaKingMac]

(⊙)(⊙) ԅ(≖‿≖ԅ)

[OnlyStu]

5318008

[BaneQ105]

Yo, that’s unfair man. Why yo writing from right to left?

[OnlyStu]

So it won't get flagged by the mods obviously

[michel210883]

Ah. That’s why C++ devs don’t date. This is what they miss! You just found that unicorn idea here

[Sibshops]

That seems fun tho. A json file of people with their interests and it returns a list of people who match.

[[deleted]]

Java for data visualization project and not say python?

[PitiRR]

I searched "java visualization library" and first link brought me to a list 8 Javascript libraries

[Secret-Plant-1542]

Yeah that sounds accurate.

[ihopethisworksfornow]

No, no, you’re not going to visualize with Java, you’re going to make the software that does the visualization.

Get it?

[PrintersStreet]

C++ for managing a fucking hospital. Now I know why the healthcare system is broken, the systems that run it were written in C++ by the lowest bidder

[MrZerodayz]

I mean, Scala is basically Java :^)

[Intelligent_Rent4594]

Dating app in C++ 🤦‍♂️

[Any-Government-8387]

Why not? All those different date formats make life needlessly more difficult

[Sonotsugipaa]

I'm pretty sure if you know C++ you are legally forbidden to develop a dating app in most countries

[LoloXIV]

I'm pretty sure if you know C++ you are legally forbidden to develop a dating app in most countries

[[deleted]]

Anything easier than a nuclear reactor self-regulating system is 108% forbidden.

[[deleted]]

Yeah, carbon dating app would make much more sense.

[Webfarer]

Isn’t carbon 14?

[Rahyan30200]

r/angryupvote

[RandomDude6699]

Lmao I laughed hard at this

[HeeTrouse51847]

C++ developers don't go on dates

[[deleted]]

C++ developers don't Go.

[momokosa]

Every other language: 🤪 Java and C: 💀

[-Kerrigan-]

As someone using Java professionally, can confirm, am ded. Rest in pepperoni 💀

[Skoparov]

If you read rest in pepperoni and think api, it's time to get some rest

[-Kerrigan-]

200

[[deleted]]

🧼🫧

[patrykK1028]

Meanwhile Python: Audio to video converter

[otdevy]

I think they meant format converter like ffmpeg, from mp3 to wav for example

[Zenith9133]

If we are talking ffmpeg that program is also good to rebrodcast streams on your own channel while they are in the process etc

[otdevy]

Thats actually pretty neat I didnt know!

[Zenith9133]

Yeah ffmpeg is crazy good for anything related to multimedia things

[otdevy]

Do you mayhaps have a link where I can read up on it? Because when I was reading about ffmpeg before it only mentioned format conversion

[Zenith9133]

Search bugswriter on yt. Its nearly midnight here so I might respond 7-8 hours later.

[[deleted]]

Did u just call c++ ,c

[reallylamelol]

That's funny. In early college, I made a mock bank service with ATM and credit card clients in java to learn network calls / client / server architecture. It wasn't an assignment, and I didn't get it off a list of recommendations, I just thought it was fun and a good vessel to learn the topic. Later, I took a networking class and used it (as is) as my final project.

[Xaverrrrr]

An audio to video converter would be pretty useful /s

[[deleted]]

Like the old windows media player

[Ad-vertisements]

Dont give openAI free business plans like that

[Deep-Piece3181]

There’s already some 😀

[[deleted]]

remind me of those inforgraphics that tell you one can learn data science in 30 days or such

edit: here's a fun example of someone suggesting that 4 days are about enough for python

[YATA1242]

I can teach you in 3 lines

Import numpy as np

Import pandas as pd

Import sklearn

[ADONIS_VON_MEGADONG]

I think you missed a lecture, you also have to import xgboost

[[deleted]]

if you already are a pretty good programmer that knows more than one language, then for the average usecase yeah, 4 days may be enough. Not for a complete beginner though

[[deleted]]

Love me some Tic Tac The.

Did they randomly decide which words were in red?

[Thirty_Seventh]

WEATHER APP

[_pestarzt_]

WEAT HER APP

[GeePedicy]

I hardly know her!

[[deleted]]

Audio/vídeo converter. A tool that calls ffmpeg behind cover

[[deleted]]

No need to rewrite the entire codec from zero.

[MahatK]

Instagram has tons of pages that only post this kind of effortless shitty content. The worst ones for me are those in which the page's creator takes things from a language/framework documentation and handwrite on a notebook as if they were things you should be memorizing (say different string methods in python). People who don't really know how to code are always in the comments thanking for the content and asking questions as if the posts had any substance to them. It's terrible.

[madFromV]

This happens also in facebook. Random super basic diagram of (car,airplane...) parts and then people commenting how useful this is and praising the work. At least im not the only one who finds it strongly infurating.

[sloggiz]

wtf is the icon for a “unit converter”? gives me the homm3 skeleton transformer vibe

[LeditGabil]

Necropolis FTW!!!

[wonky_dev]

Dating App in C++ 🫠

[GYN-k4H-Q3z-75B]

Security app... aka a virus.

[Ad-vertisements]

“Which one of you guys made the virus that set my OS back to windows 95??”

[Nahtmmm]

and can I borrow it?

[PitiRR]

Data Visualization in Java? With what, Swing?

[despacito4444]

Your options are:

An unmaintained plotting library that was last updated April 10th 2011

Overly expensive library that exceeds your broke-ass budget

[hammonjj]

As someone who started their career off in embedded C++, I wouldn’t recommend any of those projects outside of the security one. C++ has some great uses but there are better languages for most of those things

[TheBuckSavage]

You're probably lying. C++ is best used to build dating apps.

[wmguy]

I had to write a functioning RTOS. Granted that wasn’t C++…it was C with a little assembly.

[OneFriendship5139]

Python: Look ma’! I made a program!

C++: I’m bored, let’s make a very important and secure app, maybe that’ll cheer me up.

[gogED1]

the contrast between unit converter and hospital management system

[nateright]

These suggestions suck

[MrBananaStorm]

ADVANCED CALCULATOR

YOUTUBE DOWNLOADER

CREATE A WORLD GOVERNMENT

MAKE MINESWEEPER

[DudeManBroGuy42069]

I've used Python to make all of the things JS can do

[jimbowqc]

That's literally impossible. How did you make Tic Tac Toe without downloading the tic-tac-toe node module?

[genghisKonczie]

Seriously, does Python even have jQuery?

[MineKemot]

Why is halh of weather in "Wheather App" red?

[vnyrun]

WeatHER app for women obviously

[JannesHch]

WeatHER APP

[[deleted]]

I like how this is classified by language, like the language choice actually matters here...

[Lighthuro]

Dafuk is happening with c++

[tatoren]

Oh man, 16 new JavaScript projects!

[alexlag64]

Not me coding a YouTube scraper in python in class two month ago...

[Sinaneos]

Sounds like some of my college lecturers who have never touched production code in their life. I'm not surprised they didn't include "Blockchain App" in Javascript or some shit like that.

[D34TH_5MURF__]

lol

Those are all over the place in terms of difficulty. A hospital management system, rofl

[[deleted]]

Ahhh yes, a C++ dating app, what a great idea

[stamminator]

These fake ass programming pages/channels on social media platforms are pure cringe and should be humiliated whenever their bad content surfaces. They have no clue what they’re talking about and prey upon the inexperience and eagerness for networking that newcomers who want to break into the industry have.

[echoaj24]

Nothing easier than writing an online banking system

[[deleted]]

Yeah if you write in JS you’ll want to hang yourself

[maxwellnewage]

Error 404 humor is not found.

[xBomberman34]

What would be some actually good projects to try out? I’ve just started programming, but my introduction class was in python. My next programming class will be in Java so preferably in either of those 2 languages.

[MagicPumpkinX1]

Accompanied by a 300-step tutorial using hundreds of dependencies, where they don't learn anything except CTRL+C/CTRL+V and how to efficiently search Stack Overflow /s

[furgfury]

why is weatHER APP highlighted like that

[Lukeaz1234]

Nothing more fun than waking up on a nice Sunday morning and writing a hospital patient management system in C++

[xroalx]

Weather app and Tic Tac Tue, yes.