Scotty Helps

Semester course planning at a whole new level!

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Inspiration

Planning semester schedules and going through the long course catalogs to find interesting courses has always been a pain, so we decided to make the process more fun and interesting

What it does

If you enter your criteria, like the department you're looking at, the number of units, the type of course (core v/s elective), then we can filter out courses and rank them based on FCEs like hours spent in a week, teaching quality, and so on.

How we built it

We used Python (pandas, beautifulsoup) to scrape the data and modify it from a scotty-labs course API. We used javascript with HTML and CSS for the front-end, using Flask as the server.

Challenges we ran into

Front-end was a very new concept to us, and we had no idea how requests and servers even worked. Working with javascript was definitely the biggest difficulty.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We're proud of being able to learn new languages and concepts to create a cohesive application

What we learned

We learnt a lot of new concepts like data scraping, wrangling, and deployment, but also sleeping.

What's next for Scotty Helps

We're going to try to improve the user-interface to make it more dynamic and interesting for the user.

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