CRISP: An interactive student registration system

ABSTRACT

A class project, even for an advanced class in systems programming, is usually simplified to make it possible to achieve success. A conflicting goal is to produce a realistic enough system to warrant production use, so as to provide the class with sufficient motivation and the right kind of system experience. The problem is compounded when the resulting system is to be a component in an on-going information-processing system and must be compatible with it - with existing documents and procedures, with unstated assumptions about the data and about the current algorithms used to process the data, and with the social and institutional traditions that surround it. This paper reports on one successful class project of this kind.

REFERENCES

• 1: Arden, B. W., Flanigan, L. K., and Galler B. A. An Advanced System Programmnig Course, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia: Proceedings Congress of Int'l Federation of Info. Proc. Soc., Vol. TA-7, pp. 115-119, 1971.
• 2: Alexander, M.T. Organization and Features of the Michigan Terminal System, Montvale, NJ: AFIPS 1972 SJCC Proceedings, pp. 585-591, 1972.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
      H.1.2 User/Machine Systems
          Subjects: Human information processing

Additional Classification:
  J. Computer Applications
  J.1 ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING

  K. Computing Milieux
  K.3 COMPUTERS AND EDUCATION
      K.3.2 Computer and Information Science Education
          Subjects: Computer science education
  K.6 MANAGEMENT OF COMPUTING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
      K.6.1 Project and People Management

General Terms:
Human Factors, Management

Keywords:
Administrative system, Interactive, On-line, Programming, Student, Systems Programming