Comet Coursebook Assistant

Inspiration

Difficulties during course signup

What it does

Assistance for UTD coursebook

How we built it

Python, Amazon AWS, Alexa API

Challenges we ran into

8 seconds timeout for Alexa 1)No public API for UTD coursebook website 2)Because of the above two challenges, we were not able to make live retrievals as Alexa was timing out by the time we scrape.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

1)Webscraped UTD Coursebook website into a dataframe. 2)Alexa Skill development for the first time.

What we learned

1)Webscraping using BeautifulSoup in Python. 2)Developing Alexa Skills.

What's next for Comet Coursebook Assistant

1)Covering more intents. 2)More drilled down queries and reprompt. 3)Live retrieval will be possible if UTD exposes a public API.