Course Explorer Refresh, with Inspiration
Coursetree 1.5
New Features:
- Successor relationships
- Textbooks by ISBN from the bookstore
- Department requirements
- 2 clicks at most to look up information on a course
- Intelligent back button behavior
- Links to Wikipedia
- HTML5 semantic markup
Bugfixes:
- All issues listed in the previous release notes
- Phrase “one of” being missed by the scraper
- Parser can handle phrases such as “taken prior to”
- M(y)isunderstanding regarding commas corrected
- CS 136 or 145, MATH 135
- now becomes (CS 136 or 145) and MATH 135
- should see more prerequisites listed as a result
- Courses being overwritten by labs
Bugs:
- A couple of quirks showing up as errors in the parser
- EARTH 121, 121L or 122, 122L should be interpreted as EARTH 121/EARTH 122
- CHEM 264 or 28/262 should be interpreted as CHEM 264/CHEM 282/CHEM262
- Courses overlapping in the prerequisite graph
Waterloo Course Planner has been tested and works on IE8, Firefox 3.6, Chrome 9, Safari 5, and Opera 11.