🥀 Inspiration
The idea for RocEdvisor comes from our collective issues at the University of Rochester. We often have friends who struggle with course scheduling, especially freshmen. We should be ever better at course consulting!
Goal: A simple website returning a course planner
👏What it does
Takes the year and courses the student attended and outputs a recommended course curriculum for college.
🤔How we built it
We scraped data of prerequisites and courses in a CSV file. We then had Python connect to API, into a database that learns from scraped data. With student responses and course data it evaluates what courses they should take.
😾Challenges we ran into
The goal. We had the idea, but we never knew how to implement it. We had a time restriction of two days, so we could not have everything on the website. We agreed to make this specific to UR students, and
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- An auto-parser that takes all data of courses, prerequisites, teacher, and time offered
- A simple website after multiple scrapped code
- flask and connecting with API, sorting and analyzing data using Python.
What's next for Course Compass
Universitality to college students
🤔What we learned
While working as a team we all had a different level of experience, but it served as a footstone to learning new Python libraries and commands. We had one student proficient at website scraping, another in website building, and another at data analysis, and we taught each other how our code works. We shared our experiences through coding.
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