Limitation of PreNUTS

PreNUTS was developed as a procrastination project, between two somewhat intense uni assignments back in 2017. As such, a lot of it is hacky, and not as ideal as it could be. The following are the limitations of PreNUTS

1. PreNUTS only catalogues UTS subjects: Currently, and for the foreseeable future, this tool is catered only for UTS students, and more specifically the UTS Handbook website. There is currently no plans to extend this tool to catalogue subjects from other universities or institutions.

2. PreNUTS does not automatically update: UTS does not update their subject handbook at regular intervals, but instead updates it whenever a subject's information changes. A possible future change could involve automated periodic scraping of the handbook to update PreNUTS, however such automation at the moment is not a consideration for this project, and must be done in a way that UTS is cool with (scraping someone else's site regularly can place a strain on them)

3. PreNUTS does not catalogue conditional relationships on prerequisite subjects: Currently PreNUTS simply lists any subject mentioned as a prerequisite. It does not check, between two subject, whether both are required or only one is required.

4. PreNUTS does not catalogue subjects not listed on the UTS Handbook subject list: If a subject is not listed on subject lists for each faculty, it is not catalogued on the site. These are the source subject lists:

   • Analytics and Data Science
   • Business
   • Communication
   • Creative Intelligence and Innovation
   • Design, Architecture and Building
   • Education
   • Engineering
   • Health
   • Health (GEM)
   • Information Technology
   • International Studies and Social Sciences
   • Law
   • Science
   • Transdisciplinary Innovation