[Gllug] Best option for a lot of compute power

[John Winters]

On Sun, 2004-06-06 at 17:52, Martin Stevens wrote:
> I feel your pain John, 
> 
> What are you currently using at school and at what level is the school ?

The name escapes me at the moment, but it's a Windows 3.1 (!) program
with the most abysmal user interface.  The actual algorithms don't seem
to bad, but it doesn't allow the possibility of entering an accurate
specification of the requirements, with the result that it then tries to
solve a harder problem than is necessary.

The school is from years 9 to 13.  The thing the software really can't
cope with is the sixth form, where each student chooses one subject from
each of four columns, but we don't know at the time of scheduling who
will choose what.  What I want to tell it is that two subjects from the
same column can (and generally should) be scheduled together, but two
from different columns mustn't be.  I'm sure this must be a fairly
common requirement but the designers don't seem to have thought of it.


> Is this your first time tabling ? Fun isn't it.

Quite fun.  I'm just shadowing the existing incumbent this year and will
take it over next year.

John

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