Course Information Viewer

Index:

Abstract
Calendar
Project Development
Findings and Contributions
Links and References
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Abstract:

The Course Information Viewer will be a program that will provide all relevant information from the course bulletin webpages to a user about any class offered at OSU. It will display the prerequisite classes for the given class, and may also display the dependencies of this class. Hopefully, it will become a useful tool for scheduling and planning out a schedule for one's college career.

Calendar:

Spring 2002 - Began planning and initial design for project
Autumn 2002 - Restarted project in Java, wrote a general-purpose parser, implemented the database, wrote most of the framework for the project.
Winter 2003 - Have a fully working prototype that can make it through all of the course webpages by the end of the quarter.
Spring 2003 - Have the logic done for figuring out prerequisites and dependencies.
Autumn 2004 and onward - This project will become my senior thesis. Much more will be done.

Project Development:

The parser is pretty much complete, and a rudimentary scheme for pulling out prerequisite info seems to be working. The database is at the stage where it can now be used for information retrieval. The next step is to use the Registrar's database to check the results of my parser, and to incorporate it into my project. After this, I will attempt to come up with algorithms for optimizing the graph and generating schedules

Findings and Contributions:

Preliminary graphs have been generated of the CIS and Math departments. They can be found below.

Links and References:

• CIS department course graph
• Math department course graph

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