CourseTracker | Devpost

Now John can see what's coming up!

Inspiration

We've all used Blackboards products for classes. It's a really great idea as an organizational tool, but it is far too cumbersome and students get frustrated. Let's face it: it really sucks. So we wanted to make something useful that didn't suck.

What it does

Course Tracker allows you to add the classes you're taking to your profile and provides a todo-list style of task management for upcoming assignments, similar to apps like Wunderlist.

How we built it

Coming from a humble technical background, we used the bare bones basics to build our site. A LAMPs localhost web server, HTML, CSS, and PHP. (Yes that's right, PHP.) If that wasn't old school enough, we are storing all of our data in .csv files.

Challenges we ran into

Using these languages (especially PHP) was labor intensive. More of us were familiar with basic javascript, but because you can't use javascript serverside, we turned to a PHP background for our backend. In another life, we would have liked to buckle down and just learn node.js already.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Most of all, we were proud to come together as a team of strangers with a humble technical background and spend the last 3 days developing a compelling idea.

Functionality wise, we successfully generate course and assignment listings based off of course enrollment and can course through the course management page. And it looks pretty darn good too!