… is the name we gave to a software we’re developing with some friends. It’s made in .NET with C#. It was born from the Systems Design practical assignment we presented this year.
It’s a course management system. It would help a professor to have their student list for a specific subject, exams and grades, groups, practical assignments and their results. The application, with this data, calculates student compliance status, and generates listings. After presenting it, the professor told us that she needs something like this, so we decided to continue with it. It’s Free Software, and the truth is we really wanted to be in a project like this, and learn to program in this new and promising platform. We also eagerly aim to develop it, in the future, mainly in and for GNU/Linux with Mono (a free implementation of .NET).
You can find the page here (there are some screenshots!). We’re still developing it, and soon it will work with Drupal. Regarding Catedrax itself, there’s no release yet, although the code can be downloaded from the subversion repository, with the following command:
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Windows users have TortoiseSVN, a shell extension, excellent. Nautilus users will soon have something similar.
It’s worth clarifying that you’ll need to download the .NET Framework Version 2.0 Redistributable Package (the SDK is not necessary). To compile it you need SharpDevelop. It will also be possible, in the future, to do it with NAnt (Ant for .NET), although this doesn’t work correctly yet.