Inspiration
It's a pain at the beginning of the semester to find interesting, well-taught courses while taking into course format and load in combination.
What it does
Platform for students to checkout the reviews, various average ratings, and study tips!
How we built it
Web scraper to build the course database MERN stack + lots of love
Challenges we ran into
Getting actual review and rating data. We use dummy data for now
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We have a working site! We built a graph of dependencies between courses and displayed it on the course pages: this course requires courses abc, and courses xzy require having taken this course. We added easy-access button for reviews We improved search results We are working on a moderator platform and login authentification
Please checkout: www.coursefinder.ch
What we learned
Refreshed on our javascript skills, including concepts of async/await, promises This would be better built as a static website to avoid querying the database and regenerating pages every time they’re shown.
What's next for EPFL Course Finder
Getting the first batch of reviews from various sources. Finish authentication mehcanism Launch the site
