Inspiration
When we decided to take up a Master's degree and wanted to choose courses, we were faced with selecting 3-4 courses from a plethora of courses from varied specialisations. We felt there was a need to suggest courses belonging to specific fields to help students choose more relevant courses. Hence , Career G was formed.
What it does
It asks a student what position they're interested in and what courses they've enrolled in the current semester and based on that suggests courses for future semesters.
How I built it
The UI was built using HTML and bootstrap CSS and a form collects the details such as position interested, for example, network engineer, data scientist, etc and also the courses currently enrolled in, from the user. Servlets form the controller part and they send the data to the back end database where the appropriate courses are retrieved using mysql querying. Finally the output is displayed to the user. Based on the position chosen, relevant companies are also listed.
Challenges I ran into
This was our first ever hackathon and we found it challenging to set up a running application in less than 30 hours.
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
Participating in our first hackathon and fighting it out till the end :) Developing a complete application from scratch in a day.
What I learned
Brainstorming of ideas and how to come up with the idea that is most feasible.
What's next for Career G
We could improve the system further by implementing collaborative filtering to suggest courses.
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