BYU-I Class Scheduler

Inspiration

Registering for classes that fit together is a real life struggle that we've all experienced. We wanted to come up with a practical solution for the problem. We feel that this product offers a real solution that can save students time and help them focus on their education instead of their registration.

What It Does

BYU-I Class Scheduler takes your course codes, desired semester, and desired blocks as inputs, then generates an optimal schedule in which all your classes fit together!

How We Built It

We started by splitting into a scraping team and a constraint problem team. This eventually evolved into a backend and frontend team. We made use of several existing tools for scraping and CSP. Additionally, we developed a backend using Flask and a frontend using Svelte. We then hosted the backend on AWS and the frontend on GitHub Pages.

Challenges We Faced

Working with new technologies
There was no existing API we could use to search course offerings
Constraint satisfaction problems
Web scraping required reverse engineering to figure out BYU-I's registration site
Difficulty hosting with AWS
The problem was more complex than we originally anticipated

What We Learned

How to adapt to new technologies
How to work on a multipart project as a team

What’s Next for BYU-I Class Scheduler

The ability to generate multiple different schedules
Allowing users to add more preferences for their schedule (e.g., whether or not they want to take online classes and times when they don't want to have classes)