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A L O C A L B O O K S W A P P I N G H U B T e x t b o o k s a r e e x p e n s i v e ! Yo u p r o b a b l y h a v e a l o t o f t h e m t h a t yo u d o n t u s e . a n d s o d o e s e v e r yo n e e l s e .

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SLIDE 1

A L O C A L B O O K S W A P P I N G H U B

  • T e x t b o o k s a r e e x p e n s i v e !
  • Yo u p r o b a b l y h a v e a l o t o f t h e m t h a t yo u d o n ’t u s e .
  • …a n d s o d o e s e v e r yo n e e l s e .
  • M e e t a n d t r a d e . F a s t a n d fr e e . E v e r yo n e w i n s .

P r o p o s a l C r e d i t s : J a m e s S t o d d a r d , Y u - C h e n g C h e n , A n d y F u

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Core Features

 Tracks your owned books

and needed books, automatically finding trade opportunities.

 Sets up trades between

people on campus when they are already there.

 Multi-party swaps make

more trades possible.

 No money allowed, just

books for other books.

 This combination of

features is unique.

P r o p o s a l C r e d i t s : J a m e s S t o d d a r d , Y u - C h e n g C h e n , A n d y F u

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Tech

 Pitfalls:

1) Multi-party trades may be computationally expensive without careful attention to the algorithm.

2) Need to generate a lot of live data to test major functionality. Ruby gems help here.

3) Large group of developers. Need to devise an initial workflow to manage collaboration.

 Data:

User information (Name, location, schedules).

Book inventories (Want, need, conditions, value).

Hub data (Name, locations, maintainer).

Proposed and completed trades (Who, what, when, where).

Will use a third party API for raw book information, based on ISBN (Name, description, image, edition).

 Proposed stack:

Back end: Ruby on Rails

DBMS: PostgreSQL

Front end: Traditional web (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JQuery)

Mobile: Potential mobile app port to Android via PhoneGap, which makes such a thing much easier.

 Experience:

Andy Fu (HTML, CSS, JQuery, SQL)

Alex (Ruby on Rails, Database design, SQL)

Yu-Cheng Chen (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)

Possible needs: More Rails experience, JSON APIs, automated web application testing, graphic design.

P r o p o s a l C r e d i t s : J a m e s S t o d d a r d , Y u - C h e n g C h e n , A n d y F u