It's not often that a computer science and engineering team of students goes to the trouble of creating a video 'trailer' to promote a new web application (pictured at right). Using movie trailers for Hollywood blockbusters as a template, students from Team Super User Planner (SUP), one of 20 teams participating in CSE 110 in Spring 2016, edited a highly produced and cinematic one-minute video to promote their PlanIt Triton web app. Meanwhile, the team also posted a longer, seven-minute video demonstration on YouTube ahead of their final presentation on Monday, June 6:
Click here for the PlanIt Triton videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja1z0OSRlKo
PlanIt Triton is a web application that aims to streamline the process of enrolling in courses at UC San Diego. The software was developed by students in CSE 110 Software Engineering, taught this quarter by CSE lecturer Gary Gillespie. (The course is structured metaphorically like a company -- the lecturer calls it Software Engineering Inc. -- and Gillespie is listed as the "company" Founder and CEO.)
Team members were on hand for the final demonstrations. They included project manager Jace Chan (at left), software development lead Aamir Rasheed, user interface specialist Alex McNerney, software architect Elden Arellano, quality assurance lead Julia Len, and Karan Lala, database specialist. Four other students round out the team: business analyst Keyue Bao, senior systems analysts Qiqi Wu and Sahil Bansal, and algorithm specialist Suhas Arehalli.
PlanIt Triton is not yet ready for market, but some team members plan to continue work on the application while targeting Winter 2017 to complete the course enrollment system. Meanwhile, they hope to interest UC San Diego or another campus to put the software through trials to determine whether it could make the enrollment process easier for students.
Play the PlanIt Triton team project.
CSE 110 Spring 2016 course website.