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Screenshot of Website
Inspiration
The most common questions we've heard as students at UCI is "How does my schedule look?" and "How's Professor X for class Y?" To help the countless students asking (which definitely includes ourselves), we wanted to create a website that would help provide an easy way to get those questions answered.
What it does
The core functionality of ZotMySchedule is threefold:
- Given a schedule, use an XGBoost model to give it a rating based on how manageable and of quality it is.
- For the courses in a schedule, display their relative difficulty and quality scores, as well as a summary of other students' opinions of it.
- Provide a couple suggestions for schedule changes that the user could make in order to have a better schedule.
How we built it
Our website is hosted on Google Cloud and uses an SQL database. For the actual implementation, we used a combination of Python, HTML, CSS, and Javascript, enabled by the Flask and Jinja2 frameworks. We also took advantage of the PeterPortal and OpenAI APIs.
Challenges we ran into
Front-end development is something none of us had substantive experience with, so it was definitely hard getting started there. After some time (and a lot of googling), though, we were able to put together a interface that we are quite happy with.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
- Hosting everything on a publicly accessible webpage.
- Using a variety of technologies and chaining them together.
- The overall user experience.
What we learned
- Leveraging our unique skill sets.
- Working together, especially because we did not know each other before this event!
What's next for ZotMySchedule
- Clean up some of the rough edges and handle more error/edge cases.
- Cache more data for faster execution.
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