Going from the Specific to the General

It is much easier to solve a specific programming problem than a general one, since a specific one has so many more constraints than a general one. For example, if a robot arm has to pick up a wallet off floor, it's an achievable system, developing a robot arm system that picks up any object off the floor is much more difficult. Good program design suggests that we should focus on the general problem as well as the specific one, and in fact too much focusing on the constraints are considered "hacks" This project suggest we take a sample project, e.g. finding an object in an image, and using it to investigate how easy is to do specifically when the object is known, and then to develop a general object detector, and then to compare and contrast the two.