Finally progress on the the automatic scheduler. It will be completly written in C++ with using mainly the standard template library and few as possible external dependencies, and no C anything including pointers, arrays, etc. This will officially mark my officially discarding C and giving way to C++. Taking a class from Bjarne Stroustrup from him self has defintly had a effect on me changing comptely to C++ and come to realize the importance and dangers of using the old C stuff, things that any C programmer will not even consider.

Back to the automatic scheduler topic. As stated above it will be completly C++, and will be run as a cgi in a web server somewhere, or you can download it, compile it your self and run as a local executable. The source code will be open source, and the service will be completly free (hopefully without ads also). The basic structure of the application is complete, which is simply a heirachy of department, course, section, segments, etc. Right now working on obtaining the raw data to be processed, which is done by stripping data from the universities course website using wget recursivly, its been going for a couple of minutes now downloading stuff at a rate of 500kbps and this should be going for a while now, hopefully the admins over there won’t be too angry at me for raping their server.

Several ideas in my mind now, the main one being making a CD Disk launcher. Finally a real use for those AOL CDs. I might post more information about this later. Until then, happy browsing.