Scratch

Awesome! I was planning on doing this! Can I help?

Designing is going pretty well, actually. I think that using Photoshop before going right into code is going to really help, although as I'm not too experienced in the program there are still things to improve upon (mostly typography and such)

ImagineIt wrote:

You get FREE iPads?

Not really relevant, but yes. It's part of an initiative to kill the expensive and bulky paper textbooks, although most of the textbooks for iPad currently are for college, not high school. We do have some though, and they're also used to write notes and papers. We're a private school, although some of the public schools around us are starting similar programs as well.
I'm actually getting my own iPad replaced due to some unknown flaw, but I'll be getting it back soon hopefully. The first wave was freshmen and sophomores last year with iPad 2, (I was able to get one early as well due to advanced classes that used the iPad) and this year's freshman class (everybody except me in my class) received an iPad 3. Next year the entire high school should have the devices, and I'm waging a personal crusade to go paperless using web/cloud technologies like this one. 

Zeusking19 wrote:

I had the same idea not very long ago.

Will the source be available for people to edit and build upon?

Probably most of it will be open source. I haven't really thought much about it, but I'll probably just zip/tar the files and pop them on SourceForge. 

Am I the only one that doesn't use any sort of planner

Even the agenda that we are "supposed" to write in
I just carry around because it's a hall pass

I would like to see this (and possibly use it). I might also be willing to help develop it if you need it. 

16Skittles wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

Am I the only one that doesn't use any sort of planner

Even the agenda that we are "supposed" to write in
I just carry around because it's a hall pass

To this day we still get these planners from our school, nobody really uses them. We usually just write in our notebooks the assignments that are due tomorrow, but for getting things in advance I wanted to make this. 

@The people asking to help:
I really feel that I work better alone. I've been debating whether I should open-source the program, and I think I've decided on yes, so once I'm at a point where I have source to be released you can play around with that, if you make any good progress I could integrate it into the main code. 

Another thing, if any schools are interested (doubt it) they could easily put it on their web servers.

jukyter wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

Am I the only one that doesn't use any sort of planner

Even the agenda that we are "supposed" to write in
I just carry around because it's a hall pass

at my school we get detentions if we dont write down our homework

wowies
I havent used my planners at all in uh
4 years!

The one thing I can foresee needing is some good graphic design? I can do some stuff in Photoshop but I fail at typography and stuff to make a logo. Also, does anyone have an idea for a name?

isn there already Edmodo and Schoology though

oh well you can do it for the experience 

Laternenpfahl wrote:

Make a client that flickers your screen in order to end procrastination

I think that may work because flickering lights and flashing stuff on a screen makes me tired and hurts my eyes.

Hardmath123 wrote:

Sounds cool! If you are planning to learn PHP in the process, I'd suggest backing out now and going for Python (but don't let me discourage you if you really want to learn PHP) because personally, it's a much better tool for thing like this. You can use Google's App Engine to get it online. 

I personally don't use things like this, except for iCal for exam dates and project deadlines and stuff.

I know some of each, but I'm kind of unfamiliar with integrating python into web pages. At least for PHP it doesn't require any setup, and the syntax is more comfortable to me, who mainly uses C++.