OnlyFriends

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Inspiration

Comparing timetables with other students has become tedious, especially when groups get larger. We wanted to create a program to find collective breaks to lessen the complexity of hanging out with your friends, even those out of town. Everyone needs a break to socialize sometimes.

What it does

The program takes in iCalendar links from different universities and passes it to the backend. The courses are parsed and analyzed to find breaks, and their lengths. After the analysis, the resulting break times are added to the calendar on the home page.

How we built it

We used HTML and CSS for the frontend and JavaScript for the backend. The HTML buttons allowed for actions to pass through to the JavaScript functions, which then ran our analysis. After the analysis, variables were passed through to the frontend for displaying.

Challenges we ran into

We've never coded in HTML, CSS, or JavaScript
Not all universities have consistent timetable files
Adding features often broke others
Formatting the homepage
Getting variables to work between the languages
Calendar was limited in capabilities

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We made a website that can run code
The website is formatted nicely
We were able to integrate most of the features we wanted

What we learned

HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
How to host a website with runnable code

What's next for OnlyFriends

Utilizing different APIs to suggest movies, games, and events to do during the breaks
Replacing calendar with Google Calendar or similar
Add support for more universities