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Name: Ning Ge

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Project Title 1: Course Registration System

Brief Description

  Through this system students could pre-register courses online 
without going to the registrar's office. Students could pre-register
to 5 courses and they could add/drop courses or change their 
pre-registration information anytime during the pre-registration period.  
Professors could check the list of students in the class anytime.  
Freshmen advisors could check their advisee's pre-registration profile 
and eletronically sign the pre-registration form.  After the new semester
starts, adding/droping class could also be done online. 

Identify Local Users: students and professors

Assign a 1-5 score for these criteria
	Useful to others: 4
	Has specific users: 4
	Can be scaled up to PC product: 3
	Divisible: 3
	In C++ on Suns: 4

	Overall: 4

Pros:  This system can make registration process much easier for
       students, professors and administrative officers as well. Waitlist,
       priority placing and lottery could all be done online.

Cons:  students from other school who want to take courses in this school still
       has to go through paper work and visit the registrar's office.
       Most of today's school already has certain level of student profile online,
       and intergration with existing system is neccesary.

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Project Title 2: Classroom assignment

Brief Description

  Given the number of courses offered and the number of student
pre-registered, this program will match classrooms with courses
so that each course will have a class room equal or slightly larger
than the number of students pre-registered.

Identify Local Users: school administrative office

Assign a 1-5 score for these criteria
	Useful to others: 3
	Has specific users: 3
	Can be scaled up to PC product: 1
	Divisible: 3
	In C++ on Suns: 3

	Overall: 3

Pros:  This makes classroom arrangements a lot easier for administrative
       officers of the registrar's office.  Relocation of classroom could
       be done easily using this software as well.   

Cons:  Similar program may have been used already.

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Project Title 3: Game center

Brief Description
  Online game center for small games such as poker or/and chess.  Users could
choose their own images and log in to the game room.  They could download
the game they are interested in. Users can select opponents and start the game 
or end the game anytime after each round.  Users each has a cumulative score.  
Chat rooms are also provided for users in the same game.

Identify Local Users: Anyone

Assign a 1-5 score for these criteria
	Useful to others: 2
	Has specific users: 2
	Can be scaled up to PC product: 4
	Divisible: 3
	In C++ on Suns: 3

	Overall: 3

Pros:   Easy to use and fun game center.  Online game like this is different from
        large-scale online games these days which requires fast connection speed
        and a lot of spare time.  Each round of poker games, for example, could take
        only several minutes.    

Cons:   This may not be a very useful program, and users are difficult to identified.