Category: Project

AH – LAMP Server Configuration

So the mini notebooks only have windows XP on them, this OS is no longer supported by Microsoft so the first order of business for you is to install a new secure OS. I chose to install Linux Mint on my machine.

The project will more than likely require a web and database server and server side scripting language. I chose to configure the laptop as a LAMP server, a quick web search brought up this site.

You can update your HTML, CSS, MySQL, and PHP skills using codecademy or W3Schools.

Advanced Higher – Project Ideas

Suitable projects could include, but are not limited to, the following: Designing and developing a:

  • program/information system that processes, stores and allows updating of sporting or other results
  • 2–dimensional game with ability to pause and store state of the game and restart, such as Connect 4, Battleships, Minesweeper, Noughts & Crosses, Chess, Draughts, Sudoku, etc
  • small social media website, that allows registered users to blog and share information
  • database-driven website, that allows users to search content and display, edit and update it appropriately
  • multi-player card game such as ‘Top Trumps’ or a card-matching game
  • question-based quiz, that randomises questions, processes and stores results, for example ‘Who wants to be a Millionaire’, ‘Mastermind’, ‘Pointless’
  • simulation of the operation of a queue, a stack or a sort algorithm, or other similar computing science concept/process
  • interactive computer assisted learning tool that gathers and stores information
  • or any other projects offering similar challenge and complexity to the candidate