<p>I wish they made the pop-up windows more wikilike, that is, they could link to the prerequisite course to see their own descriptions, and show (to a reasonable extent) what that course is a prerequisite for. So I don’t have to open 100 different tabs to explore all the possibilities and combinations.</p>
<p>That’s a heck of a lot of work for them and they all ready have an enormous amount of work to do. You, obviously, can do without the feature if you work for it. Laziness is not an excuse for hating on the COD. Learn to love Firefox’s tabs.</p>
<p>And to answer your subject line: probably not. They’re probably not much more user-friendly than the kitchens.</p>
<p>Well as anyone who browses Wikipedia knows – linking is a lot better than manually entering.</p>
<p>Actually if I got the source code for the COD (and they omitted the sensitive parts) I could just hyperlink everything for them. </p>
<p>OMG, I know! A UVA wiki!</p>
<p>They tried making a UVA wiki… Didn’t work.
Have you seen [College</a> of Arts and Sciences - University of Virginia - acalog ACMS™](<a href=“University of Virginia - Acalog ACMS™”>College of Arts and Sciences - University of Virginia - Acalog ACMS™)</p>
<p>Sure. But the folks in the registrar office have a lot of other bigger, better things to do than ease your work of clicking a few buttons. It’s a lot of work that won’t amount to much. You use the COD twice a year, it’s not that difficult.</p>
<p>They implement extensive course evaluations and have all that networking so isn’t there a room for a single student to do some simple HTML reform?</p>
<p>No…</p>
<p>If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. For the small amount that it is used, deal with it.</p>
<p>It’s a very easy thing to code for I think. Use a script to hyperlink the first instance of each course number except the current page, recognising pages and semesters by URL pattern. Instant Wiki, only without the editing.</p>
<p>galoisien, maybe you should send your suggestion to them and if it’s simple and you know how, then maybe you should just send the code.</p>
<p>P.S. I love when everyone is on at the same time. :)</p>
<p>We could have alternate interfaces by user choice. Like new and old facebook. Where are your engineering imaginations y’all?</p>
<p>Well I need to learn CSS and string identification if I don’t want to do each page manually. I don’t know to what extent each description page is manually hardcoded versus being generated by script. I would look at the source, but I’m on a phone right now. Are there no programmers here? And who would I email?</p>
<p>i’m sure you probably know more than the UVa tech team. even without knowing CSS.</p>
<p>Look, the Registrar office (coordinates the COD), is a bunch of 40 year old people trying to keep schedules straight. They don’t know coding. They have to bring someone else in, pay them, coordinate it, make sure it works, try not to confuse students, etc etc etc. Do you have any idea what kind of work this would be? Because you’re too lazy to open “100” windows? You’re fighting pretty weak, un-needed battles.</p>
<p>Work that student volunteers could do? They could copy the COD, run a parallel experimental version based on a common set of data, again like how facebook has released its new version, and so many other things. Knowing what one course is a prerequisite of also requires some exhaustive searching (at this point, overlooking the lack of links, you can only follow a string of prerequisites in one direction.)</p>
<p>But then they have to follow up on the students, make sure it works, implement it.<br>
And they could care less about what you take in the future. Many people take the couple of intro courses and are done with it. Some don’t take any at all. You should instead be looking at courses ahead and looking at their pre-reqs. That’s called planning. You’re in college, duh.</p>
<p>But I’m exploring paths - I can hardly anticipate which 500 level course I want to take in the future, only a general idea. It’s just to compare which courses the most doors that are relevant to you.</p>
<p>It’s not going to happen. Do your fair share of the work. End of story.</p>
<p>We could also do all our programming on typewriters, just to do our fair share of work. Volunteers can do their own coding and hell you could have two separate versions indefinitely. Coding fork. Why would it need supervision? We’d just need bandwidth and the bandwidth across the two projects would be constant.</p>
<p>Hazelorb: I want to ask what went wrong with that UVA wiki anyway? Was it vandalised too much? Because if registration was only allowed from official uva email addresses (no aliases) and you had to confirm from that address, I assume you’d get rid of foolishness really quick.</p>