Pick Your Prof

Inspiration

There was no easy way to get personalized professor choices. Looking for a professor requires hours of looking through numerous review sites, university catalogs, etc. We've simplified that for you.

What it does

Rate My Prof analayzes the UT directory of professors and gives your recommendations for professors based on Rate My Professor ratings and university reviews.

How we built it

Our app has a light front-end with HTML and CSS. We have a powerful node web app powered by an Express.js server. The Node.js file is responsible for scraping data from websites and a large JSON formatted file that lists every UT professor and course.

Challenges we ran into

It was difficult getting and posting data from the front end to the NODE server. Every browser has different dependencies we had to meet.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We were able to fetch every single UT Austin course and Professor.

What we learned

We learned a lot of full stack development.

What's next for Pick Your Prof

We plan on expanding to more universities in Texas and even add analytics.

Built With

Submitted to

HackTX 2017

Created by

I handled all HTTP requests from the frontend to the Node Server. I also assisted with the Node Scraper that pulls specific data from Rate My Professors.

Sandeep Namburi
Savvy Entrepreneur aiming to use my skills for world-influencing projects
My primary role in this project was scraping and formatting the UT Grade Data into a usable JSON table as well as creating the core functions that return a given professor for a given class and department. In addition to this, I worked closely with the front-end team to direct the overall look and feel of the website. One of my driving principles in directing various parts of this project was to ensure our final product was something both easy to use and handy to use.

Samarth Desai
I scraped the RateMyProfessor data and integrated it with the algorithm and the UT Catalyst grade data in the Node server code. Furthermore, I worked with passing data between the Node files in the back-end and the webpage through HTTP requests powered by Fetch and Express.

Abhinav Kasamsetty
I worked on the front end using HTML, JavaScript, Bootstrap and CSS to implement minimalistic, yet intuitive animations and designs.

Rithvik Vellaturi
Both back and front end design. Designed and implemented algorithm to determine the best professor as well as the graphical interface for the web page.

Joel Uong