Sports participation idea

My final idea (and I really have to mean final now!) is to create a website that encourages sports participation in young people in the Bournemouth and Poole areas.

With the recent government initiatives to tackle obesity  and get the British population  more active, I thought that a tool which could help encourage children and Teenagers at grassroots level to exercise and participate in sport more, would help a situation that will simply be out of control if not addressed.

My idea would revolve around mixing people’s initiatives with technology and sport, by creating a website where school students can organize their own leagues, teams, fixtures, player profiles, book facilities and referees, whilst also being able to record statistics and design their own kits and formations.

The catch for people wanting to use the service stems from being free and easy to use, whilst also sharing the same addictive qualities that are applied to online fantasy manager leagues (such as http://fantasy.premierleague.com/). So school aged teenagers will want to check who’s scored the most tries, or who has the best run rate in their cricket team. The data captured will be the addictive quality of the site.

Food tags

The focus for my idea for a recipe generator is now aimed at yuppies, students and young couples.

The site will be extremely easy to use, and generate quick search results and information, to suit the busy lifestyle of young people today. Users will upload their own recipes and extra ingredients, creating a growing network of food and recipes.

My big concern at the moment is how on earth will I database all the different types of food! it seems the project may have too much scope, which would mean finding another idea, or simplifying the food sections… I will need to research into this.

Recipe generator

My recent thoughts have centered around the idea of food and recipes.

The problem I wish to solve is one that most people face a commodity of modern life… what to cook for dinner/lunch or any occasion, and how to keep a diet healthy.

My idea is to get the user to enter some main ingredients that they already have in their fridge/cupboard/spice rack. Their number of ingredients will not be too limited, and the text fields will predict what they type…all based graphically within a screen shot of a kitchen, to give the style of the site an informal feel.

Once all ingredients are chosen, a database full of tagged recipes will provide relevant meal suggestions. For instance if eggs, peppers, pasta, cream, cheese, tomatoes and milk the suggestions could range from a ‘Pepper Omlette’ to a ‘Spaghetti Carbonara’. It’s a personalized recipe generator to fit a modern lifestyle.

As far as I am aware, this idea has not been generated in any great detail, so it has the potential to an original tool… I hope!

My own website is launced!

I have produced a simple flash based website in which to hold my CV and portfolio work for potential employers. I hope to have the time over the summer to make vast improvements, but for now it will do!

Group Work?…does it really benefit in a University environment?

My current project was to desgin a computer game using either using Flash or Unity. My group went for Unity and Cinema 4D, and we all worked really well together. But in the end to product we produced was only worthy of 58%.

It’s a disappointing mark, and one that i felt didn’t reflect the sheer amount of effort and teamwork that was eventually put in by my own group.

Our peer assessment marks were all really good as we all got on and worked well together, all putting in the effort to produce soemthing. However I know of other groups where other members of their group simply did not put in the same effort, or even turn up at all!

It seems unjustified that these people should share the same mark, when they clearly don’t merit the mark they evetually recieve.

Peer assessment is designed to balance this injustice, but can only do so to some extent.

Why not have a sign off system where, seperate deadlines and tasks can be signed off when completed by each person?

PHP?…I’ve got some serious learning to do!

Share Your Food

After the recent PHP project, I think the majority of my course are actually shiting themselves. For once we got our teeth into some serious HTML and the introduction of PHP was a good experience, but also bought us all back to the reality that most us are well benhind in terms of where we should be technically.

Most us (including me) were far too heavily reliant on poor Matt Northam, who was an absolute legend during the course of the project. I found the project to be a hugely beneficial learning curve, but at the same time, one that bought the realisation of the strains of coding to a professional standard.

Is this something I would like to persue as a carreer?

Time will only tell, but for now I can safely say that I am looking into ventures new!

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