prembharwani / clash-hai-bhai

Tool for IITK students to plan the courses they could take for their next academic semester! And so that you don't get stuck with a course you never wanted!

Clash-Hai-Bhai

Description

clash hai bhai is a tool enabling students from IIT Kanpur to design their academic template efficiently by automatically navigating through 500+ courses across 20+ departments that do not clash with the user's existing course template.

Motivation

While I was planning my academic template during 2022 summers, I found it to be very tedious & time-consuming to look up my template & the courses I could take up. Since I wanted to make full use of the academic flexibility at IITK & explore all the options at hand, I decided to develop this tool which would automate this process.

Also the story behind the name, in case you were wondering:

Friend 1: "Oye tu konsa OE le raha hai? ESO207 lele accept ho raha hai"

Friend 2: "clash hai bhai!"

Setup

1. Prepare the course data

Please follow the steps mentioned here to procure the course data from here

2. Run the server

Install the node dependencies:

$ npm install

Run the development server using:

$ npm run dev

clash-hai-bhai's Issues

Fix and improve extract_course_data

@theslyther-in

When you run the script scrape_csv.py, you would encounter the error:

$ python .\scrape_csv.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\clash-hai-bhai\extract_course_data\scrape_csv.py", line 6, in <module>
    import fix
  File "C:\clash-hai-bhai\extract_course_data\fix.py", line 8, in <module>
    f = open(filename, 'r')
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'output.json'

Could you please work on the following:

• Fix the bug I have mentioned above
• Currently the files are pretty much scattered and it is hard to understand the purpose they serve. Could you please restructure the code into modular functions & just move all the utility functions into one file itself. There are unnecessary files, please get rid of them.

Incorrect template courses case is currently being handled incorrectly

Scenario: If we have a course in a specific template which is not being offered in the current semester, the app logic doesn't handle this correctly.

For instance if you have "AB123" in the template, and the course_data.js doesn't contain "AB123" then your app would throw an error. This could be resolved by verifying whether each course that is specified in the template is actually being offered, and if not then do not include that in the already selected courses.