SlugSurvival

This is a project aims to help new and continuing students with their Slug Life.

Contributors

1. Edwin Kofler (@eankeen)

Special Thanks

SlugSurvival's development is not possible without the help and support of (no particular order):

1. My parents
2. Niraj R.
3. Alex H.
4. Ching C.
5. Alex R.
6. Julia Z.
7. Taiki M.
8. Tiffany K.
9. Carol J. (my supervisor)
10. Kate B. (for not killing me when I accidentally DoS the school)
11. Rashimi S.
12. etc (I will update this list...)

Open API

For anyone who is interested in doing something course watching (e.g. need up to date enrollment data for its Slack bot), you can use my API.

The API has since moved to Andromeda. Please refer to Open Source for reference

Caveat:

1. API endpoint is not rate limited, and you should use it responsibily.
2. Some queries return a very huge dataset. Please be careful on your backend when processing the returned JSON.

Functionalities

Disclaimer

THIS IS STILL A VERY NEW PROJECT. Bugs are expected.

Improved course selections/planning (faster and more responsive)

(Data source: pisa.ucsc.edu, fetched by UCSC Courses Fetcher)

1. You can search classes instantly based on class code, location, instructor name, and class names
2. Class conflicts are detected instantly
3. You can add a classes first, sections later
4. RateMyProfessors scores right where you need it
5. Search classes based on preferences, GE, and many other criteria (coming soon)
6. Click to save your current planner as a picture (experimental)

Improved academic planning

1. Students can make their 4-year planner with an interactive interface, and have the ability to export their planner directly to a PDF file
2. Predicts class offerings based their historic frequency

Class opening tracker (beta)

1. Subscribe to class entrollment opening status in (near) real-time. Inspired by our fellow slug Brad Bernard's project: SlugWatch
2. This functionality requires ucsc-watcher library (which are currently not open source due to its instability and potential DoS when malfunctioning)
3. This functionality requires notify library (which are currently not open source due to its instability)

Enrollment data graph

1. See changes to course enrollment on a time-series graph

Major/minor requirement in a graph (pending indefinitely)

CS HELP NEEDED CONTACT ME IF YOU CAN

1. You no longer have to plow through countless pages of UCSC websites to find your requirements. All courses pre-req and major/minor-req will be visualized in a graph

Many more to come

Contributing

Clone the repo, then,

npm install && npm install pm2 -g

Then,

pm2 start app.json --env dev

Then,

npm run dev

Entry file is src/main.js.

Bugs and PR

You know where to go.