On 20/12/11 21:18, Mark Neidorff wrote: > I am considering writing a "visual department scheduler" for schools. The > concept is similar to an appointment calendar, but I'd like to include drag > 'n > drop functionality. A supervisor is provided with teaching session objects > that meet in fixed time periods (call them 1-12). The supervisor drags and > drops them onto the individual teacher's schedule. This application should > be > cross platform, able to run in windows, mac and linux. So, it seems easy to > me to conceptualize this in a web browser, but what language/development > envoronment would be appropriate for this project?
You 'could' use PHP (in a LAMP).... that'd be the second easiest way to achieve the stated outcome. > > Any thoughts are welcome. > > Mark > > But the easiest way is don't reinvent the wheel. :-) What you describe is a subset of a number of mature and widely used CMSs - principally Moodle, but also others like FreeSMS. I'd suggest looking at Moodle first because it's so widely used, because it has other capabilities that you/the school will probably/possibly want - and because it's simple to run from something like a tiny Debian LAMP in a VirtualBox. You could even put it the whole thing onto an USBKey. Seriously - take a look a Moodle, if nothing else it'll give you some ideas. Cheers -- Iceweasel/Firefox extensions for finding answers to Debian questions:- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/Scott_Ferguson/debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
