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University Textbook Exchange Software

Posted by michael on from the cut-out-the-middleman dept.

PageMap writes "With the textbook-buying season upon us, many universities and student organizations are attempting to combat the on-campus bookstore's overcharging by starting up their own grassroots book exchange efforts. The problem is the seeming lack of available web-based software to facilitate an efficient book exchange. Is there such a thing as free web-based software made for this type of use?"

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  1. This type of question can usually be answered by a by Tim_F · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    simple google. That's what pisses me off about Slashdot. The users are too lazy to type a couple of characters into Google, and yet they're willing to waste the Slashdot editors (and our) time by sbmitting these stupid questions.

    Now, onto the ask slashdot portion of my post. Any first year programmer with a rudimentary knowledge of programming could write what you require. If you search freshmeat,net you'll find thousands of mp3 cataloguing programs written by people bitten by the programming bug in their first year of compsci. Most of them have been abandoned as they suck.

    If they had been written in an object oriented language (such as C++) instead of Perl, the program would have been modular by default, and these programs would not be laying by the wayside to this day. Just imagine the possibilities, at the click of a mouse, people could turn an mp3 database into a book or recipe database. This world would be a much better place if everybody programmed in C++ instead of Perl.