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Database Correction Interlude

This is the third post in a series, documenting the progression of the project and the challenges I faced at each stage. I’m intending these posts to be almost reflective in nature, rather than very technical, though I will lightly justify some technical choices also. Once I feel that I can move the project out of a prototype stage, I’ll put up a more formal page documenting the technology and some overall reflections.

Because the state of the database kept bugging me, I went back to the original ER diagrams with my friend, and we came to a quite simple solution.

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UQ Course Chooser Stage 2 – Database Planning and Evolution.

This is the second post in a series, documenting the progression of the project and the challenges I faced at each stage. I’m intending these posts to be almost reflective in nature, rather than very technical, though I will lightly justify some technical choices also. Once I feel that I can move the project out of a prototype stage, I’ll put up a more formal page documenting the technology and some overall reflections.

Following on from part one, I have a Python script to scrape UQ’s course and program websites and now need to design and build a database to store the scraped data.

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Posted by Anthony in Course Chooser