Independent projects in CS 11 are an opportunity for you to design, program, or extend an existing programming project, perhaps as a vehicle to learn or explore a new programming language or API(s). The breadth of projects conducted is quite large; as such, you need only to propose something that sounds viable and is mildly non-trivial in order pursue it for credit.
The brief descriptions of projects below might be useful in gauging the merit of your own idea if you're not sure.
| student | term | language | project |
| Sachith Dunatunga | Spring 2009 | C | Libparagon: a library to interface between a cell phone and a computer |
| Keegan McAllister | Spring 2006 | Haskell | Gulik: a stack language |
| Ilya Loksha | Spring 2006 | C++, Python | Laser Wars: a video game |
| Josh Zahl | Winter 2005 | C++ | Dynamic STL containers |
| Chris Moody | Fall 2004 | C# | Phanes programming language |
| Jason Mitchell | Fall, Winter 2004 | C++ | OpenGL Venture Clone |
| Sue Ann Hong | Fall 2004 | C++ | DARPA Grand Challenge path planning |
| Jeremy Gillula | Fall 2004 | C++ | DARPA Grand Challenge path planning |
| Mike Thielman | Spring 2003 | C | interactive shell |
| Shang-lin Chen | Spring 2003 | C | open GL experiments |
| Aaron Stern | Winter 2003 | C++ with Qt graphics library | FTP client |
| Alex Adriaanse | Winter 2003 | Java | J2EE wedding invitation response server |
| Ben Granett | Spring 2002 | C | OpenGL: interactive graphics |
| Ellen Wei | Winter 2002 | Python/jython | Bioinformatics visualization tools |
| Leo Polovets | Winter 2002 | C# | Othello program |
| Gabe Lomeli | Winter 2002 | C++ | File manager for Windows |
| Dax Herrera | Winter 2002 | C/C++ | OpenGL: particle systems, alpha-blending, etc. |
| Tim Elling | Winter 2002 | Java | Peer-to-peer networking system |
| Todd Bowra | Winter 2002 | Java | XML-based electric vehicle checkout system |
| Adam Azarchs | Winter 2002 | x86 assembly language | Fast, arbitrary-precision integer arithmetic |
| Greg West | Fall 2002 | Prolog | Traveling salesman (and other problems) solver |
| Mike Thielman | Fall 2002 | Modula-3 | Distributed fractal generation |
| Lilli Davis | Fall 2002 | C/C++ | Various OpenGL demos |
| Chris Crabbe, Aaron Stern | Fall 2002 | Prolog | Implementing the Davis-Putnam boolean satisfiability algorithm |