[Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

[Paul Ishenin]

Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
>> Alexander Klenin wrote:
>>> Last year one of my students already participated in FPC development
>>> with moderate success (see 
>>> http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13700).
>>>
>> This is a very good feature and it is so nice that it was done by a 
>> student with some directions by Florian and Jonas. I did not expect a 
>> positive result when you started.
>>> This year, I expect 1-3 more students to choose Lazarus/FPC for 
>>> their projects.
>>> So I request community for a suitable ideas -- projects should be
>>> reasonably self-contained, not too hard, require actual coding and
>>> be interesting enough to motivate students.
>>> Students will work on projects they select from October 2009 to 
>>> April 2010.
>>>
>> I would ask to implement modern delphi language features like:
>> - anonymous methods
>> - for-in loop
>> - class constructors and destructors
>> - support for strict private and strict protected sections
>> - abstract and sealed classes
>> - class const, class var, class type, class property
>>
>> Anyway, sooner or later delphi developers will use them more and more 
>> and there will be a need to port that code to fpc.
>
> I second this. - Class helpers come to mind. - Attributes (the 
> extended RTTI In D2010)
> - Delayed keyword for lazy binding
There is an article at the embarcadero website: 
http://edn.embarcadero.com/article/34324 but it covers only d2007 features.

Best regards,
Paul Ishenin.