electives

Website to filter CS tech electives by prerequisites

Backend: https://toffeegryphon.pythonanywhere.com/courses

General Idea: Directed Graph

Nodes: Courses Edges: IsPrerequisite

To Build Backend

1. Git clone
2. Generate your own secret key.
3. Add secret key under SECRET_KEY entry in .env (same dir as manage.py)
4. Pip install from requirements.txt
5. python3 manage.py runserver
6. Visit localhost:8000/admin (may require creating own superuser first)

To Build Frontend

1. Git clone
2. npm install
3. npm start

idea on visualization map style, click on a node to mark as taken, cool animation to show what can be taken next

=== Course ===

• int UID
• str Title
• str Description
• str Link
• str Hours
• List fulfils (e.g. teamwork, swe, ...)
• OutEdges (Prerequisite To)
• InEdges (Requires)
  • if same ID, OR operator, else AND operator
• def GetPrerequisites() list of InEdges apply OR to all with same ID apply AND to result of prev and all others return
• def GetCoursesICanTake() 2 ideas:
  1. Have an IsTaken tag on clientside, if true consider as empty node
  2. Implement a CanTake for each course and call for all courses

=== Edge ===

• Prerequisite
• Destination UID (only required for JSONifying)
• ID