Project Specifications

Frontend

• Table/grid schedule layout for displaying courses / a schedule
• Place to input & select courses
  • Also a place to display sections for a course
    • Would display the meeting times, instructor(and possibly previous grade distributions/average GPA)
    • Similar to how Aggie Scheduler does it
• Place to view different possible schedules
  • I.e. the resulting view when trying to find possible combinations of courses to take

Backend

• Scraper
• API/Database access
  • Ex. Requesting all sections for a course
• Actual scheduler
• Google Authentication
  • Saving schedules/selected courses by account

Inputs for scheduling

• Courses
• Locked-in/selected sections
• Start/stop times
• Break times?
  • Like block of a period (12pm - 2pm) and find classes around it
  • Needed for work schedules and such
• Optimizing for:
  • Instructors with highest grade distributions
  • Minimize time/breaks between classes
  • Minimize distance between classes