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« on: November 07, 2007, 07:54:06 AM »
UPDATE 7th November 2007 11:15 PM: A working prototype of the calculator is now online! It's not very pretty at the moment (and lacks many features), but should work properly.
http://atarcalc.com/


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 I was planning on writing an ENTER calculator (mainly as a programming thing, something to do when I'm bored... That's what programmers do when they're bored, they code random things Tongue). Basically, you enter in your expected study scores, and it estimates the ENTER you'd get (based on results from previous years, using the scaling report). This was mainly because I could not find any good ENTER calculators - The only good one I could find was the one on the Bored of Studies site, which doesn't seem to load properly half the time (I swear, their server must be some old Pentium sitting in someone's basement Tongue). I know there's an Excel spreadsheet floating around that does this, but it didn't seem to work in OpenOffice for me Sad

Do you think this would be a good idea? It'd be online (so you wouldn't need to download anything) and no registration would be required. Perhaps we could make it the "Official FSN ENTER calculator"? Cheesy


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Estimate your ATAR (ENTER)! VCE ATAR Calculator

2005: Cisco CCNA Units 1+2
2006: Info Systems [39 → 36.93]
2007: Specialist [33 → 43.13], Methods [39 → 44.48], Physics [34 → 37.38], English [23 → 19.91], Chem [26]
ENTER: 84.95

2008-2011: Professional Software Development, Swinburne Uni.
Currently doing IBL! Cheesy
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« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2007, 08:22:51 AM »
There's already one that's been made, using last years data. Of course, I haven't saved the link to it but I've seen it around a lot.

The excel one doesn't work in openoffice for me either ;( I really need to get around to buying microsoft office x_x (although I like the word processor more than microsoft word I have decided)
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« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2007, 08:37:59 AM »
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There's already one that's been made, using last years data. Of course, I haven't saved the link to it but I've seen it around a lot.

Oh, really? Well I might still make mine, just as a programming exercise (and seeing as I can't seem to find any information on this other one... Anyone know more about it?)
The hardest bit would be getting the data from the PDF of the scaling report into a useable form, but I suppose I could write a script to grab the data from the PDF file. Smiley


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The excel one doesn't work in openoffice for me either ;( I really need to get around to buying microsoft office x_x (although I like the word processor more than microsoft word I have decided)

I use Linux... No Microsoft Excel for me Tongue
Well, I've got Office 2000 on CD somewhere, and I can install it on WINE, but I'm not going to bother with that (I'm trying to stay away from Microsoft stuff Tongue)
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ENTER: 84.95

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« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2007, 08:47:06 AM »
Is the calc gonna be cross-platform?
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« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2007, 08:55:11 AM »
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Is the calc gonna be cross-platform?


My one's gonna be online, using AJAX to make it all nice and fast-loading Smiley
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It'd be online (so you wouldn't need to download anything) and no registration would be required.


Anyways, I've managed to get most of the data from the scaling report (automated via script, not me copying-and-pasting everything, lolz Tongue). I'll start writing the calculator itself when I have time to Cheesy
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2005: Cisco CCNA Units 1+2
2006: Info Systems [39 → 36.93]
2007: Specialist [33 → 43.13], Methods [39 → 44.48], Physics [34 → 37.38], English [23 → 19.91], Chem [26]
ENTER: 84.95

2008-2011: Professional Software Development, Swinburne Uni.
Currently doing IBL! Cheesy
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« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2007, 09:10:27 AM »
http://bryn.humberstone.id.au/computer/index.php

theres already a good one using last years date there, so honestly i wouldnt bother lol
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« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2007, 09:20:06 AM »
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http://bryn.humberstone.id.au/computer/index.php

theres already a good one using last years date there, so honestly i wouldnt bother lol

Only Windows though... Tongue

I'll keep this as a side project, anyways. I've already imported all the data into a database (so all the data is in a useable form), but the actual interface itself needs to be written. It's something I can work on when I'm bored and have some free time Cheesy
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2006: Info Systems [39 → 36.93]
2007: Specialist [33 → 43.13], Methods [39 → 44.48], Physics [34 → 37.38], English [23 → 19.91], Chem [26]
ENTER: 84.95

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« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2007, 10:11:50 AM »
spot on. Cheesy

I see you're a talented programmer Wink Good to see.
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« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2007, 10:27:04 AM »
theres lots of them...
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« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2007, 10:27:37 AM »
Well... http://entercalc.us.to/index.php
That's it so far. Doesn't actually do anything yet, I was just working on the very basics of it Tongue. It has a list of subjects, and you choose what subjects you're doing. It doesn't actually calculate anything yet Tongue
Oh, and I think it's screwed in IE at the moment. Use Opera or Firefox instead. =]



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spot on. Cheesy

I see you're a talented programmer Wink Good to see.

Heh, thanks Cheesy
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2005: Cisco CCNA Units 1+2
2006: Info Systems [39 → 36.93]
2007: Specialist [33 → 43.13], Methods [39 → 44.48], Physics [34 → 37.38], English [23 → 19.91], Chem [26]
ENTER: 84.95

2008-2011: Professional Software Development, Swinburne Uni.
Currently doing IBL! Cheesy
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« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2007, 10:30:30 AM »
Yours is prettier IMO
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« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2007, 10:33:01 AM »
you forgot UMEP
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« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2007, 10:50:48 AM »
Looks good, but you should include an option for university enhancement subjects (which will be something between 4 and 5.5, and will be the sixth subject).

If you want to make it really fancy, have a look at the jQuery UI toolkit. It's shiny, and ajaxy! Cheesy
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« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2007, 11:04:25 AM »
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Yours is prettier IMO

Thanks Smiley

Still can't figure out these stupid Internet Explorer errors Tongue
Anyone have IE7 installed? Could you see if the "Add Subject" thing works in IE7?

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Looks good, but you should include an option for university enhancement subjects (which will be something between 4 and 5.5, and will be the sixth subject).

Hey, it doesn't even calculate anything yet!
I'll get there... Tongue

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If you want to make it really fancy, have a look at the jQuery UI toolkit. It's shiny, and ajaxy!

I use mootools Wink
And Functional > Shiny Cheesy
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2005: Cisco CCNA Units 1+2
2006: Info Systems [39 → 36.93]
2007: Specialist [33 → 43.13], Methods [39 → 44.48], Physics [34 → 37.38], English [23 → 19.91], Chem [26]
ENTER: 84.95

2008-2011: Professional Software Development, Swinburne Uni.
Currently doing IBL! Cheesy
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« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2007, 11:06:57 AM »
IE7 is a royal pain in the ass to work. firefox is so much better.
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