[Lazarus] Request for student project ideas

[Andrew Haines]

Alexander Klenin wrote:
> As some of you may already know, I teach programming in Far Eastern
> National University
> and encourage students to participate in open source projects for
> their course works.
> Among opensource projects I recommend are Free Pascal and Lazarus.
> 
> Last year one of my students already participated in FPC development
> with moderate success (see http://bugs.freepascal.org/view.php?id=13700).
> 
> 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.
> 

<opens can of worms>
Perhaps a utf8 compiler supported string type?
</opens can of worms>

Regards,

Andrew Haines