Course + Department Addition

[sam1rm]

Nick

• [x] Autoload the popular_courses by default (same as current workflow)
• [x] Integrate variations into the search (make it better)
• [ ] Load the regular courses as soon keypress && no results are shown anymore
  • [ ] Show loader
  • [ ] When courses come in, append them to the popular courses (lowest hanging fruit method IMO)
  • [ ] Register their keyup, and now it's like the old one

    Samir

• [ ] Provide back-end support if something is funky
• [ ] Update the universities course list based on the ones that don't have it
• [ ] Make courses w/o popular do not re-include popular
• [ ] Create loader plugin (finally)

  Gabrielle

• [ ] Popular courses icon

[sam1rm]

Sample

https://www.uguru.me/api/v1/universities/1632/popular_courses

Changes that need to be made

• Open University.js

//before
getCourses: function(uni_id) {
            return Restangular
                .one('universities', uni_id).customGET('courses');
        },

Add this one
getPopularCourses: function(uni_id) {
            return Restangular
                .one('universities', uni_id).customGET('popular_courses');
        },

Get this working for one university first

I tested using Tufts -- the data should be pretty accurate and the data size different is significant

• Before: 3904 courses
• After: 494 Popular courses

Important fields for popular courses to make it even faster

• [ ] popular_course.times_mentioned --> # of times mentioned in ratings (if you wanted to sort by the most popular one)
• [x] variations --> a string with all the types of variations concatenated into one string
• [x] name --> the full name field of a course (not just the short name)

[sam1rm]

Two methods to resolve

Two ways to resolve case where they do not have results

Method one

1. Show 'one list item Add a Course'
2. Confirm js alert that says "Add _____ ?"
3. Empty the input
4. Show rest of the popular courses w/ the most recent item selected at the top

Method Two

1. Resolve the GUI thread problem (will require reading) -- i can get to it around 9