On Monday 10 October 2005 15:08, Mike Metcalfe wrote: > Tom wrote: > > That, and the lack of any great momentum forming > > behind the discussions we've had here, makes it seem like the best > > course of action is to focus on interoperating with whichever > > timetable generation application ends up in the Edubuntu distribution. > > Do you know which applications they are looking at? I wrote a Java > timetable generator some years ago for a training centre that ran 6 month > learnership programmes. It worked well for them but not so well in a 5 day > repeating timetable but that wasn't my focus at the time. I enjoy the > problem area and was hoping to one day redevelop it in Python for the > schooltool project.
One of my professors in college wrote a timetable and exam setup generator for our college. Using some graph theory he wrote a tool that ran about one hour to calculate the schedule, versus about a week with a previous implementation by a company. The moral of the story is that it requires very good math skills to implement an effective solution. Note that schools in Germany are very much in need for such a tool, since students can freely choose their courses. Regards, Stephan -- Stephan Richter CBU Physics & Chemistry (B.S.) / Tufts Physics (Ph.D. student) Web2k - Web Software Design, Development and Training _______________________________________________ Schooltool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.schooltool.org/mailman/listinfo/schooltool
