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The university has decided to streamline their coursework submission procedure by having students stick barcodes on their work. Unfortunately they’re going to start charging for sheets of barcodes on Monday. There have been emails going around about students wanting a way to print off their own barcodes but the uni said it was too expensive and time consuming to write something to do it. So, proving them wrong, I wrote my own PHP script and it only took me a couple of hours. The coursework barcode is the student’s id number written in “Code 39″ barcode.

I’ll put the code up once I’ve perfected it. I’ve shown it to the uni people and they say it works for mine but they can’t use it because it needs lots of testing before it can be used on an organisational level (I’d like to know how much testing they did on their current closed-source proprietry solution). They did suggest I talk with someone in “Open Access” computing so I can make my barcodes available to other students.