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An Automated Scheduler for Specials at Creekside Park Elementary School

An Automated Scheduler for Specials at Creekside Park Elementary School. Bruce Templeton CS 470. System Overview. Goal Develop a program to assist in the scheduling of times for students to be in ‘Specials’. The client is the Creekside Park Title One department. Why?

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An Automated Scheduler for Specials at Creekside Park Elementary School

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  1. An Automated Scheduler for Specialsat Creekside Park Elementary School Bruce Templeton CS 470

  2. System Overview Goal Develop a program to assist in the scheduling of times for students to be in ‘Specials’. The client is the Creekside Park Title One department. Why? The Title One department is currently doing this scheduling completely by hand. This program will significantly reduce the time it takes to schedule the ‘Specials’ for the classrooms each year.

  3. What is a Special? A Special is a scheduled time which students are required to be performing a specific task. Examples PE Music Lunch Reading Math Science

  4. Special Requirements May be assigned to the entire grade. May be a daily item. Special may be in a different classroom. Only one special at a time per classroom. Lengths must be in multiples of 5 minutes.

  5. Current GUI

  6. How as this Created? The entire program is written in Java The GUI was designed in NetBeans

  7. System Architecture

  8. Classes Schedule Stores the schedule for each classroom This is done with a 2D array Classroom This class represents each classroom Does all conflict checking when adding or removing a special from the schedule

  9. Classes Special This class hold all the information for each special MSchedule This is the manual scheduler All specials are stored in an array All Classrooms are stored in an array LoadSave Saves and load the classrooms and specials The option to import specials from a previous year

  10. Schedule

  11. Conclusion Goal Created a program that will significantly reduce the time it takes to schedule specials. Challenges Dealing with a client who is not sure what they want. The UI has changed quite a bit from the initial design. Staying on schedule with all the changes

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