[Feature Request]: Show extra information from course description

[AbhiramTadepalli]

Overview

The course description contains key information that is technically different from the description of the course. The goal is to separate these from the description paragraph because (a) it is technically possible and (b) highlights important details about the class.

Proposal

Certain course descriptions have information at the end, like prerequisites, notices, lab fees, etc. For readability (and to highlight these), parse the course description and separate the additional information onto a different line.

Supplementary Information

The requisites are already separated (https://github.com/UTDNebula/utd-trends/pull/166/commits/54603a947e1c401ddbdbbeb81be626a4233ecded)

The description always ends with something like "(3-0) S"

Tasks

• [ ] Identify all the types of "additional information" (lab fees, etc)
• [ ] Separate it into a new div

[TyHil]

@AbhiramTadepalli has API already done this or is this different? See the course return format which includes requisites: https://github.com/UTDNebula/nebula-api/blob/develop/docs/schemas/course.md I think these are lists of course IDs so we'd have to make another API call to get their names but that might be better than parsing it from the description

[AbhiramTadepalli]

I think these are lists of course IDs

Yep, that's why I was parsing manually, but

we'd have to make another API call to get their names but that might be better than parsing it from the description

this sounds good.

However, we would still have to identify it and remove it from the course description.

The API doesn't have lab fees or anything like that which some course descriptions have at the end, which must then be done manually.

[TyHil]

Gosh this gets messy. So this feature request is to switch to pulling requisites from the API while still removing them from the description?

I do think removing things like lab fees (and even just removing requisites maybe) from the description and separating them might just always end up not working on some course because of how non-uniform the course descriptions are. Maybe it could all be left in and truncated with like a "Show more" button if too long

[AbhiramTadepalli]

Related to #173

[egsch]

Types of additional information:

• Prerequisites/Corequisites and same as (already handled)
• Lab fees* (easy to remove, very uniform writing from what I've looked at)
• Other fees, ex. digital access fee, supply fee, iClicker app fee (not handled, but most of them have a range of details that might be hard to extract properly).
• Suggested prerequisite / suggested additional preparation (could add like we do prerequisites?)
• Substitutes for (not handled, but may be better to keep it in the description since it has additional restrictions and needs to stay as a full sentence).
• Department Consent Required* (or Instructor Consent Required, UT PACT Advisor Consent Required, etc.)
• Credit/No Credit Only*

Starred ones seem doable and potentially important to pull out of the description to highlight.

[egsch]

Made a version pulling out lab fees, consent required, credit/no credit on branch. Not sure if it's an improvement over the past version, so I'm going to leave this here and focus on other issues until the redesign release. If anyone has input on this please leave a comment!

[AbhiramTadepalli]

Sounds good!