Some Useful and Easy Mini Project for Be Tech 1st Year

Mini projects are an important starter kit for developers who want to pursue a career in tech.

Interviewers are particularly interested in your mini projects. The computer science mini project topics you work on sheds light on your career interests and speaks for your enthusiasm to learn tech concepts at a deeper level.

Moreover, when you apply your theoretical knowledge in a hands-on way, you get to explore a breadth of concepts related to your topic.

The practical experience gained from tackling technical challenges in your mini project helps you walk away with longer retention of applied skills.

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10 Best Mini Projects for CSE

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1. Notes & Password manager

Password managing and note-taking are some of the most overlooked virtual activities in today's digital age. Various companies are constantly adding new features to note-taking and password management.

So, instead of having and maintaining two different apps in your system, you will be developing a single app that can perform both of these activities.

Notes & Password Manager is an android application that can be used to take notes anytime and generate strong passwords whenever you need to create new passwords.

First part of the app i.e. the note making app may be mainstream for some of you developers, but the password management part is an interesting way to level up your Android Development skills.

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2. Library Management System

Management systems are used in all institutions. It may be digital (software) or analog (record books/ledgers), but everybody surely uses it.

Today data is power.

But having said so this data should also be well-managed for clean and accurate data to exist at all times.

One such system is the Library Management System, which is used to keep a record of books present in a library. This system consists of information regarding Books, where you can perform all the operations that are required in an actual system such as CRUD operation, advanced search, book issuing, and also to store the information (in an encrypted format) within files using the process known as Serialization.

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3. Breakout Ball Game

Java is widely used by game development companies and for creating mobile games. And this fact shouldn't come as much of a surprise, given how versatile the language is and given its rich collection of open-source material.

Many of the world's top mobile games have been developed in Java. Minecraft, Mission Impossible III, and Asphalt 6 are just a few popular names you are probably familiar with.

In Breakout Ball Game, a layer of bricks lines the top third of the screen and the goal is to destroy them all. A ball moves straight around the screen, bouncing off the top and two sides of the screen. When a brick is hit, the ball bounces back and the brick is destroyed. The player loses a turn when the ball touches the bottom of the screen; to prevent this from happening, the player has a horizontally movable paddle to bounce the ball upward, keeping it in play. The player uses the platform to keep the ball running. The goal is to break the bricks without missing the ball with your platform.

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4. QuizUp - A Quiz Application

The quiz format for exams has been standard for a long time and still persists to be. The reason for this is - the efficiency and feasibility it carries with it.

What if you could build one? This project aids you to build a simple Android application where students can take their tests in a quiz format. The application is developed using Java and integrated with Firebase.

Here, Firebase will not only be used for deployment but more importantly the student (examinee) data will be stored, manipulated and the results can be fetched accordingly.

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5. Chatbot Song Recommender System

Have you ever wondered if there was a way to capture your mood and play songs according to that? Why not make an application that does just that! And that too without having to learn Natural Language Processing/Deep Learning from scratch.

In this project, you will be building a chatbot that converses with a user, and recommends songs based on the emotional analysis of the conversation using open source tools like the Cakechat chatbot, IBM tone analyzer API, and Last.fm songs API. The benefit of using these APIs is that you don't have to think of creating and training models from scratch, and can just use them out of the box.

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6. YouTube Transcript summarizer

Deep Learning-Natural Language Processing and Web Development are two favorite choices of beginner Python developers.

But what if you could not only learn both of these but also create a project that you can use in your daily life?

In this project, you will be creating a Chrome extension that summarizes a YouTube video from its transcripts. This is done by implementing an NLP model from the popular Huggingface library.

This project is a time-saver for YouTube viewers and a remarkable addition to your dev portfolio. Completing this project will showcase your command over full-stack development using HTML, CSS in the frontend, and Flask for the backend, along with the concepts of NLP.

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Moreover, you will gain transferable skills in creating a Chrome extension into a web app. This is a valuable skill given the huge popularity and scope of extensions.

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7. House Price Prediction

Machine Learning is a field with immense potential and buzz, and thus, most Python beginners feel inclined to start with Machine Learning. And there is no better starting point than this housing price prediction case study.

In fact, the de facto standard starting point in Machine Learning - Andrew NG's Coursera course, starts with this very example. That, unfortunately, lacks the Python implementation, something that you can compensate for, via this project.

Even though this project in Python is of low complexity, it will expose you to real-world Machine Learning simulation, in a fun way.

You will get hands-on experience with Machine Learning libraries such as SKLearn, Numpy, and more.

In addition, you will get to import and explore a dataset to fit your requirement, preprocess it to remove noise, implement the model using SKLearn, train it on the training dataset, and finally test it on the test dataset.

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8. Stock Visualization-Forecasting dashboard using Dash

Inspired by Scam 1992, nearly everyone has a newfound interest in the stock market these days. Knowing how volatile the market is, every trader definitely needs a stock visualizer that can help them make better trading decisions. Even better would be to have a visualizer that can also make forecasts using Machine Learning. And that is exactly what you would be building in this project.

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9. Resume Builder Web Application

Any software developer's journey is characterized by long hours trying to create the 'ideal resume', one that is crisp, to the point, correctly formatted, and easily update-able, and many existing resume builder tools that provide these are paid ones.

In this project, you will create your own resume builder application using React and Material UI on the Frontend and Node-Express for the backend.

By working on this project, you will have three advantages:

Learn full-stack Javascript development with React-Material-Node-Express, all of which are extremely useful technologies in your journey as a professional software developer.
Build your own application that you can use in your daily life.
Iteratively build up on the application to provide more features, better UI, and ace those interview questions!

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10. Student Result Management System

There are various examination results you hear every now and then such as school exam results, competitive exam results, college semester exam results, and so on. Have you ever thought about how it generates a result by simply entering student information? (Given the massive amount of information present of millions of students.)

Have you ever considered making one?

You will be wearing a creator hat in this project and building a full stack website that takes student information from a database as input and outputs a PDF of the student's results. The results can also be downloaded and shared.

The three areas to implement in this project include:

Result Section for students
Database for storage
Admin Section for administrative purposes

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Python project idea

Emotion Based Music Player (credits: Gourav Sardana)

Google Search has set the bar high to immediately receive useful information for things you search on the internet. Today, users automatically expect to get accurate and instant recommendations on almost anything.

Wouldn't it be cool if there was a music player that could recommend songs based on the mood of a user?

What to do

Create a desktop GUI application that recommends songs to users based on an emoji or live emotion of the user.

Create a basic music player such that users can:
Search for particular songs they like.
Listen to songs from a wide range of music.
Filter songs by genre, artist, etc.
Implement functionality to extract emotion from an image a user uploads or clicks a live photo - Refer.
Implement functionality to recommend songs based on emotion. Users should be able to receive recommendations based on:
An emoji selected, photo uploaded, or a live photo clicked.
Their selected genre/artist.

Scope of the project

Concepts: Facial Emotion Recognition, Convolution Neural Networks, Recommendation Systems

Skills: Tkinter, OpenCV

Tech: Anaconda(Python), Keras

Time Investment

70-80 hours

References

Free and Open Music APIs
Music emotion recognition
The ABC of building a content-based music recommender system
What are some algorithms used in a music recommendation system?
Using Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to build a music recommendation system

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Javascript project idea

Online white board (credits: Nabhan Abdulla)

Online tutoring and schooling from home are becoming very common nowadays. Moreover, because of the COVID pandemic, brainstorming and discussing ideas over video calls have picked up in popularity as well.

In such cases, whiteboards play an important part in making these tasks simple. With a whiteboard, you can easily explain and share ideas. Having a digital whiteboard solves the problem of purchasing and installing a physical one.