qasimabbas / rucoursemaps

Student tool that allows for graph visualizations of their department's courses and prerequisites

README

This is a tool for students of Rutgers University to see all of the courses in any particular department by prerequisite. Just go to rucoursemaps.com

This is a web flask application. Graphs were generated via the Cytoscape JS API.

Note: Courses which have prereqs in other departments do not show up. This feature will be added in the future.

How to run local host: First you need to clone the repo git clone https://github.com/roopeshkom/RUCourseMaps.git

Then make sure you have python 2.7 installed, as well as flask. cd into the RUCourseMaps repo and run

.\venv\Scripts\activate

Install the dependencies into the virtual environment

pip install Flask

pip install venv

Next run the app python app.py.

Finally go to your browser to see it at localhost:5000 Then to stop the virtual environment enter deactivate

TODO:

1. Correct json parsing algo for all SOE departments, where it is not detecting prereqs-> To do this we need to integrate the Spring and Fall Semester JSON together to detect all possible prereqs
2. Add clicking functionality such that it will highlight the nodes and previous nodes
3. Add hover-over node function -> generates textbox (course name and discription (in the near future feature will be added))
4. Either add the course's department code into one of the strings, or create a new string that incorporates this: (Ex. 198:111, 198:112, ....). I need the department # so I can properly add href links / other fun stuff based on the specific department selected by the user.
5. Add a feature that will add classes which have prereqs in other departments (after deployment).
6. Change node color style (red and black)
7. Remove semi colons in the course names
8. Create a loading screen with cool graphics
9. Coreqs cases