What computer out of these, is best for a college student?

What would be the best computer science final year project option for an average student belonging to an average engineering college?

• no specific front end and back end specified by the college. any project impressive enough and good enough to help you get placed in a decent company should help.

• Answer:

  Given the way you have worded your question, it'd be best to first rise above the psychology of mediocrity - "for an "average" student belonging to an "average" engineering college?" Please be more respectful towards yourself and the institution where you study. I know many people here in the states with "average" acads and from "average" academic pedigrees who found their passion and have made themselves successful with hard work. There are many exceptionally talented folks who aren't very good at standardized tests, you may be one of them. But I'm more concerned that the "average"-ness you mention might have to do with a fundamental dislike you have for computing? Maybe you never wanted to be in this field anyway? Could be, I'm only guessing. Bottom line is, be passionate and wipe out the word "average" from your vocabulary. Ok, enough of me being Uncle Advice, and onto answering the question: Here is one not-so-tough but impressive idea that should impress :P: Campus Map, with the kitchen sink If you are good at JavaScript and front-end development, you could create a tiles based map (say with Leaflet or AmMaps) of your entire college campus, with an insane amount of details in the map - your call. I did this for my university (not while on campus though), and I also added a host of features by asking the concerned departments for term-wise data - I added pop-up schedules to classrooms, schedules for events of other important locations, point-to-point directions, administrative dashboards to add/alter all this information, classy photos of important points (HDR!) - basically Google maps replicated for the campus, but with a lot deeper zoom resolution, comprehensive schedule information and what not. It was *wildly* received, although it wasn't as difficult as my peers trying to do stuff along the lines of proving P=NP. And best of all, since employer impression is of valuable concern to you - imagine being able to deploy it to your campus server, making it a goto app for all folks, and then demoing it to the interviewer live, say on a tablet. You'll impress for sure, provided you take good care of the aesthetics and getting it right. Epic Challenge I faced: Intuitively displaying multi-storied buildings and their floor maps in the top-view 2d map, and doing the directions for the same. (e.g. Main Gate to Pavlov conference room, which would happen to be J-Block 4th Floor!) This was a tough use-case - by tough I mean tough to do right. I ended up writing some extensions which would require you the user to click on the building, and that would bring the building in the viewport focus, deactivating focus from the rest of the map, and the wheel would roll through the floors. As for the directions for such an use case, leave the direction end marker at the building, and prompt the user for a click on the building for further directions - next, repeat the single building single floor technique mentioned above. (Don't forget to put in a back to map button!) Oh my, how excited this still gets me, I'm going into all the gory details! Anyway, how you cope up with all that is up to you. Let me see if my login still works and if my baby is still intact, I'll try to post a few pics. I'd say the difficulty is 7/10 for a decent JS developer who understands == and ===, and things like scopes, closures, hoisting, structuring etc. (basically the advanced programming constructs and quirks of JS), and someone who has battled IE's hasLayout CSS bugs. All the best, I'm pretty sure you can pull it off by learning the stuff.