Project Requests

[ehmatthes]

One of the main draws of the site is the idea that someone can use the site to learn Python, and then jump into a variety of projects. This is a thread to collect ideas and requests for specific projects in one place.

[ehmatthes]

Ideas Notebook app

I've been trying to think of a good web app to build. Ideally it will be simple enough to focus more on using Django to build an app than focusing on the logic of the app; but complex enough to see a number of interesting features of Django.

I always recommend that people keep an "ideas notebook" when they're learning to program. This would be a great project, and one simple enough that people could build it and then use their own version of it.

[ehmatthes]

Sound generation projects

Many students love to play with music-generation software. Something as simple as generating a series of tones and shifting them in different ways.

A sample project here:
http://zulko.github.io/blog/2014/03/29/soundstretching-and-pitch-shifting-in-python/

See the python-rtmidi project, python-midi, python music links.

[ehmatthes]

3d Mapping Tutorial

The Visualizing Global Earthquake Activity has always been well-received. Someone recently requested an extension of this project that would show how to deal with more dimensions of data:

What about displaying 3D data. Any examples? For example, showing roads with the third dimension representing the traffic load on the road or the number of potholes/deaths/accidents per mile.

I would love to get to this at some point, but I probably won't dig into it for a while. This would be a great project for someone to write up.

I'd also like to process a geospatial dataset such as an ocean floor mapping dataset, and generate an image of the landscape. I'd like to do this for mountains as well.

[ehmatthes]

Map elevation data. Given a set of lat, lon, and elevation (or depth) measurements, make a contour map of the surface. See mplot3d.

[ehmatthes]

Photo filters. You can make a simple photo filter in 20-30 lines of code, and they're super fun to play with. They open a lot of avenues for further investigation, and they're a great learning project.

[ehmatthes]

A simple CLI or desktop app that stores info in an sqlite db. Working with dbs is powerful, but usually involves building a web app. How can you build a standalone CLI or desktop GUI app that sits on top of a database?