Modular BSc Honours Computer Science3COM0063 Computer Science Project Suggestion

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1. Project Title

2. Aim of the Project

3. Background Information and User Requirements

4. Basic Project tasks

In order to be considered for a pass at Third Class Honours standard on this project, a student must give evidence of having adequately attempted to attain the following objectives. It is expected that most students attempting this project would have completed the following by Christmas.

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A Facebook application for questionnaires and opinion polls

I think it would be cool to be able to add a questionnaire to a facebook page. Then you could find out that 92% of males don't like your new hairstyle, but 69% of females have the same favourite movie as you have.

Cool maybe, but not easy I suspect -- definitely involves programming -- the API seems to be based on PHP.

Facbook is a popular "social networking" system. You can add applications to your facebook page, see http://www.facebook.com/help.php?page=12 for more info on this. It may be that someone has already build a questionnaire application, but even if so you could build your own.

Eventually, you should be able to easily create new questionnaires, an the results should be updated on everybody's page in real time.

Apart from the obvious development process, there are lots of interesting and subtle privacy and security issues that you could look at if you have time.

Implement a simple Facebook application that doesn't do anything. Implement a Facebook application that does a fixed questionnaire.

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