CourseComplete

Inspiration

It takes more than 5+ business days to get a progression check. They have to be manually reviewed. Ben's progression check took a month and caused him to do courses which he didn't need to do.

What it does

Takes a user's academic statement as a pdf, and automatically returns the courses which they have done and courses which they still need to do.

How we built it

Backend:

• Python Flask
• Beautiful Soup (web scraper)
• Py2PDF package

Frontend:

• React.js

Challenges we ran into

• A lot of edge cases:
  • Legacy students took courses which are no longer provided
  • Some courses are equivalent
• Scraping different end points
• Setting up a database with MongoDB

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• A working MVP which outputs courses the user needs to take

What we learned

Building a full-stack

What's next for CourseComplete

• To scale the app, we will store our scraped data in MongoDB (right now its in local JSON files)
• We will continue to use our webscraper that we built to parse various courses and fill the database
• we will also build a Scheduler for the student in which they have a full course schedule containing when they can take the courses they need to take

Built With

• python
• react