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...Finally, Petersen said he will be working later this summer with the Registrar’s office to create a more useful course-browsing tool. He said his plans come as a result of the web site Michael W. Reckhow ’06 created this spring. Reckhow’s site ranked courses according to data from the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) Guide...
...Reckhow, who has also built websites for the student-run companies Let’s Go Publications and Redline Textbooks, said that the inspiration for his new course site struck as he noticed how time-consuming it was to flip through the CUE guide and manually compare class ratings this past exam period...
...Reckhow explained that he had built the site with some “fairly complex code.” First, he created a directory of courses with links to the CUE Guide and Registrar’s list that “filtered out all the courses so that you could see only ones that were offered this semester.” He then programmed a search engine and, the day before intersession, added the course ranking system...
...seen how many people are using it I might incorporate previous years’ CUE guides as well,” Reckhow said...
...Reckhow said he hoped that his site might one day spur administrators to create a similar official tool for students...