This this project aims to be a better alternative to HIS/LSF at the University of Stuttgart for viewing lecture data and planning your timetable.
Eventually one would like to have more functionality (e.g. “I'm currently in building A and have free time, which lectures are available for me to peek into?”), the possibilities are endless.
The project can be seen as two separate parts: a backend and a frontend.
The backend constist of a web crawler (harvester) for retrieving real world data and defines a data format to be used for database storage.
The most important parts of the backend are working already.
The frontend uses the stored data to deliver a full web user experience.
Almost everything remains to be done.
You'll need
grunt in your path (e.g. npm install -g grunt or through pkgs)sass in your path (e.g. install ruby and run gem install sass or through pkgs)Proceed by doing something like
cd to this projects directorymongod directly (have a look at http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/manage-mongodb-processes/ for details).npm install to install dependenciesgrunt sass to compile stylesheetsnode ./import.js [-v] <command> using a command from the following list
(it's probably wise to run these commands in the following order):
courseList to import course id'scourseData to import actual course data (one web-crawl per id)moduleList same …moduleData same …lectureList same …lectureData same …locationData to import location data for locations referenced by lecturescourseDrop, moduleDrop, lectureDrop to wipe your datanode ./index.js to start a webserver on port 3000 and navigate to http://localhost:3000