Slug Planner

This is a course planner redefined for UCSC, which helps student track their courses throughout their 4 years and create a customized plan based on their major.

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Inspiration

We were inspired to build the project to help students plan their courses and organize their schedule more efficiently.

What it does

Slug Planner allows students to create accounts, select their major and receive course recommendations based on their major and schedule. It includes a GPA tracker and the ability to add custom courses as well. There is an option to view saved plans if they make a new one as well.

How we built it

We built the frontend using HTML, CSS and JavaScript. For the backend, we used Flask and Python for user authentication, data storage and course recommendations. User data is stored in a JSON file.

Challenges we ran into

Managing user authentication, and building a dynamic dashboard. We also had issues with the API that we didn't have time to debug.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

We created a user-friendly coure planner that saves preferences, generates course recs and extra features like GPA tracking.

What we learned

We developed our skills in:

  • HTML/CSS
  • JavaScript
  • Python

We learned:

  • A new framework (Flask)
  • More about API
  • Building a secure server ## What's next for Slug Planner Expand course recommendations for more years, more majors and interactive scheduling - like drag and drop courses.
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