GA SCORE ESTIMATOR / STUDY SCORE ESTIMATOR

[paulsterio]

Remember to give credit to Mao for the original idea and concept though.

Yepp, definately will because I'll be using the same equations and calculation procedures as his spreadsheet

[paulsterio]

It looks like atarcalc.com uses PHP, so it'd probably be better to stick with PHP if you're going to work with daniel15 on integrating it into the site. Avoiding a programming language debate but I think pretty much all those scripting languages have modules for processing PDF's pretty easily. I'd imagine PHP would have a similar simple method for processing them as well.

Pretty awesome idea by the way, good luck with it.

Alright, thanks for that then, I'll have to look into PHP, I'll try to learn it over the holidays (whilst everyone's on schoolies - i'm too poor to go anywhere!) so hopefully I'll at least have a prototype which is somewhat working by next year, but yeah, I think integrating it with the atarcalc site is a good idea, but I'll try to get in contact with Daniel after I get a prototype done.

But if integration ends up working, it'll be good because I won't have to worry about hosting

[b^3]

It looks like atarcalc.com uses PHP, so it'd probably be better to stick with PHP if you're going to work with daniel15 on integrating it into the site. Avoiding a programming language debate but I think pretty much all those scripting languages have modules for processing PDF's pretty easily. I'd imagine PHP would have a similar simple method for processing them as well.

Pretty awesome idea by the way, good luck with it.

Alright, thanks for that then, I'll have to look into PHP, I'll try to learn it over the holidays (whilst everyone's on schoolies - i'm too poor to go anywhere!) so hopefully I'll at least have a prototype which is somewhat working by next year, but yeah, I think integrating it with the atarcalc site is a good idea, but I'll try to get in contact with Daniel after I get a prototype done.

But if integration ends up working, it'll be good because I won't have to worry about hosting

If you want to go one step further, you could use the exam tracker to work out what numbers you should be putitng into the SS estimator, then use the numbers from the estimator to put into the atar calc. But then that probably would be overdoing it, and resulting in students feeling locked in, stopped by their limitations and then getting them down on themselves.

Just remember you need something along the line "these are only predictions, we cannot be accountable blah blah blah"...

[Lasercookie]

Just remember you need something along the line "these are only predictions, we cannot be accountable blah blah blah"...

Something like the Insight line? "These predictions produced by ... are NOT an official VCAA result for the (current year) VCE. "

[REBORN]

Graded Assessment

[aiming_95]

In other words, SACs and examinations ?

[mihir94]

Yes

[Damien.kal]

Okay this is just a really stupid question...

But where is the download link? I can't figure out where it is.

[jane1234]

Okay this is just a really stupid question...

But where is the download link? I can't figure out where it is.

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[black]

whoops wrong place

[soccerstef]

can anybody explaiin his steps in simple terms haha

i checked my score of each individual GA
eg- B+ for english is 238 (exam)
how do i double that to get my study score lol?

[Daniel15]

the only issue is that i'm not sure how to parse a pdf file, i know daniel15 managed to write a script for it when he wrote his ATAR calculator, might try to ask him about it

My method wasn't too exciting... I copied all the text from the PDF into a text file, and then wrote a PHP script to convert the raw data into SQL insert statements. The ATAR calculator runs off an SQL database containing all the data.

It looks like atarcalc.com uses PHP, so it'd probably be better to stick with PHP if you're going to work with daniel15 on integrating it into the site.

Yeah, although I was considering rewriting it as JavaScript eventually, which would make it easier to make standalone offline mobile apps (and calculations would be a lot quicker as they wouldn't need to hit the server). The advantage of doing server-side calculations is I know exactly how many calculations are being done by looking at hit statistics.

[Daniel15]

Alright, thanks for that then, I'll have to look into PHP, I'll try to learn it over the holidays

While learning PHP, you should learn PDO (which is the modern interface for PHP to use databases) and about PHP's object orientation features. There's a lot of old tutorials that teach old practices, like using the really old MySQL library (protip: Don't follow any database tutorial that uses the "mysql_connect" function) and messy code.

These might come in handy:
http://webdevrefinery.com/forums/topic/5131-the-backwards-php-53-guide/
http://webdevrefinery.com/forums/topic/1272-your-mysql-code-sucks/

[Damo23]

how do you calc the sd. im not familiar with these terms. could someone help me predict my studyscore for eng, bio, chem, physics, methods and spesh if I averaged 70 in all.

[mgand]

Really want to know if this is accurate. Can anyone post whether what this predicted is what they actually got? Thanks!