Add a section called GR4 Computer Prototype to your project's wiki page. This section should provide instructions for accessing and starting up your computer prototype, both for your classmates who will be evaluating your prototype and for the staff who will be grading it.
Specify the platform and software requirements for your prototype:
QuickPick is browser based, and currently tested on Google Chrome (Windows 7, OSX) and Safari (OSX). There are no further software requirements. Recommended Resolution is at least 1440x900.
Give brief, step-by-step instructions for starting up your prototype. For web sites, a hyperlink to the site is sufficient. For JAR files or executables, say how to install and start the program.
http://web.mit.edu/nmorales/Public/quickpick/
Describe which parts of the prototype are shallow (incompletely implemented or canned), so that your evaluators know what should work and what shouldn't.
Currently, we have implemented the four year course planner for students in 6-3. You can move the classes around, select generic classes (like completing your LAB requirement with 6.172 or 6.813). You can search for classes (though we have only manually inputted 60 classes) by name, by professor, and by course number. In terms of the task analysis from GR3- we decided to focus on the primary task of planning your four years at MIT. (Universal You). This focus came after a discussion with our TA, and a desire to do one thing extremely well, rather than replicate functionality already implemented by other sites. There is course information for each of the courses listed. There is no concept of saving, or user accounts just yet. We are still missing information on a lot of classes, but this is just a backend modification.
Your prototype must remain frozen (no changes) and accessible at this location for two weeks after the due date.
Your prototype should be downloadable as a single file. Package multiple files into a ZIP archive for easy downloading.
Available on the Public.
4 Comments
Unknown User (ndsheth@mit.edu)
Attached are my comments.. Nice job so far. QuickPick_hw2.pdf
Unknown User (helloplz@mit.edu)
Looks crisp. 6.813_HW2.pdf
Calvin E Lewis
Seems sweet hw2.pdf
Edward Oscar Benson
Nice work guys. A bunch of comments below to work on for the final version. I think we hit all these when we met:
"Wiki presentation
: Very easy to use; clear instructions
Fidelity: No title or instruction given to user; overflow is a big problem: please find a way to confine classes to their container rather than having them spill out on top of other elements
Usability: Red and green aren't good choices (colorblind) -- perhaps find some icon to go along with the colors to help. In addition, no explanation of color is given to the user. Make drop contains more visible: have borders, and grey the whole container when they are disabled, not just the title. Missing any notion of conflicting classes, which may further restrict dropability. Alignment problems on top row. No visual distinction between ""from"" row at top and ""to"" rows at bottom. Some guidance for the user is necessary: which classes are mandatory, which are options, etc. For 000X classes, the buttons in the info popup don't behave like buttons -- they behave like radio buttons. Why not use radio-style buttons (only one selected at a time allowed; have a separate visual style to indicate that which is selected). Also the 0000X selection popup needs 1) a close button in addition to the ""click background to close"" semantics and 2) a title and explanation to the user about what is going on.
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