Comment by superqd | Hacker News Reader

Comment by superqd | Hacker News Reader

Maybe this is there somewhere, but something I'd want to see are degree tracks/plans. That is, when I got my degree, there were 4 different ways to get it depending on whether I was going for BA, BS or whether I was going to declare a minor or not.

So for students, that would be a great tool to have, to help sort and plan which course would be required given what you wanted to do. Your site could have a nice visualizer for which classes to take for a given track (e.g., B.S. Physics Minor in Math, B.S. Physics no minor, etc). The key here would be to make it easy to swap in/out electives and to order the classes based on pre-requisites.

EDIT The site does look nice, btw.

I'm so happy that you mentioned that. I've been busy building out the infrastructure to do just what you're talking about. Unfortunately it's pretty complicated so it's taken me awhile. The first step was the ability to get majors/minors in the system. My next step is making the degree programs more useful by being able to add required core courses, etc. Once that is in place, I can move on (finally) to graphing out paths for students.

I already have linkage between pre/co requisite courses, so almost everything I need is in place. I'd also like to integrate with universities existing systems so that I can have what courses the student has already taken available and merge that into the graph automatically.

Additionally (rambling now), I'd like to get cost per credit hour info from the university, and allow students to say "I'd like to get a B.S. in Computer Science from University X. What is the cheapest way to do this?" and have the option of mapping things out from a start at a community college and transferring versus starting at the 4 years school.

Thanks for the feedback!

Sounds awesome. The $$$ per track and comparing to schools would be awesome too.

Seems like you've got a good handle on things and have some good ideas. The design is nice as well. Best of luck to you!

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