Ask HN: spring break projects, anyone?

2 points·_mattb··5 comments

for those of us still under tutelage and with spring break upon us/arriving, any mini-projects you're pursuing? Myself, I'd like to explore some garden management, track what you grow, software.

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since I really can't avoid school... I was planning on making some software to help me choose classes.

You need software for that?

probably really helpful if you are trying to optimize your time to degree - I did my undergrad with a double major in 3 years, it's a lot of work setting that up and it requires special permission. I'd setup a DAG of class dependencies and look at which classes to ask special permission for - this is easy in early CS classes in particular, you go to the prof and go I want to take X as a coreq with Y instead of as a prereq because I have basic competence and let me show you how. <blahblahblah about X and Y>

need, no. but fairly often, it happens that there's a class that I want to take, but think won't fit, that it turns out would if I flipped my schedule around.

I'm half trying to solve that issue, and half think it's an interesting problem to see if I can come up with some sort of "optimal" schedule given requirements (doing a double major), class time preferences, and class ratings (this one's the bigger one, esp. with electives).

http://esc.frozeninflames.net/ is a fairly successful scheduler from my university, it is very nice, you might want to look at it for ideas.

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