GoodProfOrNot 2.3.12

GoodProfOrNot is a database and web system for organizing, interpreting, and presenting course survey results.
GoodProfOrNot project is designed to show ratings of instructors (professors and student instructors) and classes.
The project is implemented in Python (see below for rationale). The back-end uses any SQLObject-compatible database, such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite.
The front-end outputs raw hand-designed/coded HTML and CSS. Output can either be dynamically generated using the CGI front-end (with caching and mod_python/FastCGI support) or pre-generated as static HTML.
Python allows rapid prototyping and implementation: to add the "newsgroup" field to the system only took 15 minutes to update the database schema and HTML front-end, and 10 minutes to write a program to link all the ucb.class.(cs|ee)* newsgroups.
This course survey system started as a final project for a Python class taught by student instructor Ka-Ping Yee. Its primary goal was to replace an old system used by Eta Kappa Nu at UC Berkeleys EECS course survey system. It has since become very successful and other schools use it.
Enhancements:
- Fix parse error when user enters search query of e.g. "CS C191".
- Bug reported by Ramesh Sridharan