Student Course Scheduler

This course scheduler was made for UMASS Boston students to help find and build optimal, non-time conflicting class schedules that best fit their semester!

This project was made in the goal of solving a real-world problem that students face periodically. As a fellow student, I know building valid class schedules for our upcoming semesters can be time consuming and frustrating. Students might often resort to a schedule that "works" but might not be ideal or optimal

Features:

• In real-time it scrapes the data in open sections from the UMASS Boston course catalog
• It utilizes Depth-first search (DFS) to find all valid class combinations with backtracking
• Displays optimal schedules by scoring them based on time gaps (longer time gaps between classes = lower the score)
• Can run on command-line or a interactive web app interface (streamlit)

How to use:

• Run in terminal 'streamlit run app.py' to open the interactive browser
• You can then enter the classes you want to take for the upcoming semester,
• Select the days you prefer to take classes on,
• (Optional) - Enter any time/class periods with their respective days that you want to avoid,
• Click generate schedules to view results with the highest scores displayed first

Screenshots

Example image of the streamlit user interface:

Example image of the result output:

Install streamlit

• pip install streamlit

Install selenium:

• pip install selenium

Run the streamlit app

• streamlit run app.py

OR:

• python -m streamlit run app.py