Course Explorer Refresh, with Inspiration

Dec 23 2010

Coursetree 1.5

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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.

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