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Originally Posted by JPWRana I can help you out with atleast some I guess... I already had made a flowchard for my major because the one the department provides COMPLETELY SUCKS!!!!
Yeah... it will be VERY TEDIOUS!!! especially for one person taking care of ALL the majors... If you were to just have 1 person from each major help you out here... then 1/2 the work willl be done.
I have the MFE one if u want... hehe. I can do the IE and ME one also.
But remember... user interfaces are a high priority!!! Sadly, ppl care more for how a thing looks than how it functions. So dare I say having a "flash" enabled interface will blow ppl away... but then u have the problem of user requirements... ugh!!! HOW DO U DO THIS!!! :P |
Setting up the data aspect of it seems relatively simple, it's a matter of getting all the data I want in the right places.
The more I look at it, the more it seems doable. The interface... can always be a work in progress, I just need a group of people telling me what to do with interfaces so I can find the best design to do.
Anyway: It seems like most majors, maybe all majors have their information saved in PDF files. I can use a perl extension called "PDF-API" to grab the text information out of the PDF files and put them into a database. I also need a place to grab Corequistes, and prerequistes and put those into a database.
Once I have the above data, suggesting schedules will be easy. I may not be able to get all majors, so one of the first things a user would do with their user account is select "their major." I don't think right now i'll worry about making flowcharts for the information, although I might do something of that nature later.
I am sorry but I do not know flash and have no intention of learning it. Most reasonable things that can be done in flash can be done in html and javascript ... at least provide the same functionality.
I may need assistance locating PDFs of majors, and finding out what year they are for... and maybe also finding a defintive guide to coreqs/prereqs, besides broncodirect... that is the biggest painful place to grab anything off of. Anyhow... Thanks for the advice and feedback... I will look more into the usefulness of this feature, after i setup user accounts.