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« Reply #15 on: November 07, 2007, 01:13:54 pm »
I ran it on IE... it lets you click add subject but teh subject wont come up down the bottom when you click it.
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« Reply #16 on: November 07, 2007, 01:14:20 pm »
Have fun implementing normalcdf imo, neither JS nor Java provide it in their respective core apis haha. GL & have fun :p.

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« Reply #17 on: November 07, 2007, 01:54:21 pm »
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I ran it on IE... it lets you click add subject but teh subject wont come up down the bottom when you click it.

Blah :P
That's the problem on IE, and I have no idea how to solve it...  :?


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Have fun implementing normalcdf imo, neither JS nor Java provide it in their respective core apis haha. GL & have fun :p.

Calculations will be done server-side, and I think there's a PHP library for it... somewhere.
Edit: Actually, I don't think I'll need it. VTAC has a table of aggregate values and the equivalent ENTER :)
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« Reply #18 on: November 07, 2007, 02:03:18 pm »
orite, you're taking STUDY scores as inputs, I thought otherwise, my mistake :p.

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« Reply #19 on: November 07, 2007, 02:04:25 pm »
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Edit: Actually, I don't think I'll need it. VTAC has a table of aggregate values and the equivalent ENTER :)


so it will be done in blocks of 5? there are calculators which do it for every value.

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« Reply #20 on: November 07, 2007, 02:08:28 pm »
i've already got the old one that someone linked up there, but it'd be good if you had the ones from previous years to compare. if you can be bothered, of course.

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« Reply #21 on: November 07, 2007, 02:31:42 pm »
Hi Daniel15,

I took a look at your code and found the IE error. Really it isn't valid so it shouldn't work in FF either, but you know how browser implementations are :p.

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var el = new Element('div', {id: 'subject_' + subj_id, class: 'subject'});
The attribute identifiers `id` and `class` are really instanceof String, so you need to encapsulate them as such (it is after all a key->value string[]?, nfi rly, dont use js much lol):
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var el = new Element('div', {'id': 'subject_' + subj_id, 'class': 'subject'});

Here's an amended rafb that works in IE7: http://rafb.net/p/gwt3vB54.html
Good luck :).

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« Reply #22 on: November 07, 2007, 07:26:04 pm »
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Edit: Actually, I don't think I'll need it. VTAC has a table of aggregate values and the equivalent ENTER :)


so it will be done in blocks of 5? there are calculators which do it for every value.

Well, VTAC list the scaled scores as what a 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50  would scale to. I'm going to have to use a method of estimating what the numbers in the middle would be (linearly would probably be easier, so that's what I'm going to do for now).

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it'd be good if you had the ones from previous years to compare.

That's a good idea... I'm going to have to rethink my database schema though
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I'll work on finishing this first, and then amend it somehow.

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The attribute identifiers `id` and `class` are really instanceof String, so you need to encapsulate them as such

Ooh, thanks! That's something I would not have noticed unless you pointed it out!
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(it is after all a key->value string[]?, nfi rly, dont use js much lol):

Yeah, that's right. That's a hash table (associative array, if you like), and quotes normally aren't needed around the keys. However, "class" is a reserved word, and hence needs the quotes around it. Opera and Firefox seem to know how to handle it when it's used improperly like that, but IE just gives up (and its error messages are not helpful at all, the line numbers are completely wrong) :P
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« Reply #23 on: November 07, 2007, 07:34:00 pm »
If you need hosting, let us know - I've got an underused dedicated server in the US.

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« Reply #24 on: November 07, 2007, 07:58:50 pm »
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Have fun implementing normalcdf imo, neither JS nor Java provide it in their respective core apis haha. GL & have fun :p.


You can program in the integral, then approximate it using Simpson's Rule which gives decent accuracy for this sort of application! :)
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« Reply #25 on: November 07, 2007, 08:06:44 pm »
hokayyy....................

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« Reply #26 on: November 07, 2007, 09:11:31 pm »
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If you need hosting, let us know - I've got an underused dedicated server in the US.

Heh, I don't need hosting, I've actually got my own dedicated server :D
And yeah, mine's underused as well... My main virtual server (I have multiple VPS systems on it) only hosts 16 sites. And yeah, I get 1500 GB bandwidth per month, and use less than 40 GB of it :P
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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

2008-2011: Professional Software Development, Swinburne Uni.

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« Reply #27 on: November 07, 2007, 09:38:25 pm »
Yeh, we host around the same amount (~20) and use ~100GB of our allotted 1000TB. Thought I'd just offer ;)

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« Reply #28 on: November 07, 2007, 10:14:37 pm »
Take a look guys! A working prototype is now up! :D
It's not that pretty yet, but should work. I'll work on cleaning it up soon :)

http://entercalc.us.to/

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Yeh, we host around the same amount (~20) and use ~100GB of our allotted 1000TB. Thought I'd just offer ;)

No worries, I do the same thing (offer to host friends and stuff :D)
Estimate your ATAR (ENTER)! VCE ATAR Calculator

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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 #29 on: November 07, 2007, 10:42:37 pm »
v nice work: P
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