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Outcomes / Results:
As the goal of our research was to provide advisors and students with a more
effective and usable plan of study by providing a justified recommendation as to which
implementation would be preferable, we feel that a PHP implementation is obviously
preferable on the Purdue campus. This implementation was not only usable across
multiple platforms on which Java Servlets were not, but it also provided a much greater
opportunity for a follow-up group to jump into head-first as it is similar to programming
languages we are taught in classes. We have successfully learned to be competent with
both HTML and PHP in the course of our research and, in the greater scheme of things,
have become proficient with learning new programming languages in general. As a
conclusion to our project, we intend to invite advisors to try the new web-based
implementations and provide us with feedback as to which features they like, which
features they do not like, and any changes they would like to see made. We will make
these recommendations and our source code available to another research group in hopes
that eventually students and advisors, both in and out of the School of Science, will be
able to make the move from the archaic and extraordinarily general paper and SSINFO
versions to our new web-based implementation.
Distribution of Work:
We initially divided the components of our research between the four members of
our team. Two people worked exclusively on the PHP implementation while the other
two worked on the Java Servlets implementation. This would have worked well had the
Java Servlets been as easy to implement and develop as the PHP implementation. In the
end, we decided to combine efforts on the PHP implementation in order to completely
finish one implementation, as opposed to having two incomplete implementations.