BCIT Flex

www.bcitflex.tech

A website for easily viewing BCIT course offerings. Features a course filter to aid in course selection.

Please feel free to report any issues, bugs or suggestions. Pull requests are welcome.

Installation

pip install bcitflex

Prerequisites

• A PostgreSQL instance is required for the database.
• Dependency psycopg2 requires libpq-dev to be installed for Ubuntu/Debian systems.

sudo apt install libpq-dev python3-dev

For more details see the pycopg2 documentation and StackOverflow.

DB Setup

PostgreSQL is used as the DBMS. To create and initialize the database:

1. Create a database using the cli command. Pass --help for more information.

flask --app bcitflex create-db

2. Build schema using alembic:

flask --app bcitflex upgrade-db

3. Populate the subject table with the list of subjects to scrape courses for:

flask --app bcitflex load-subjects

By default, subjects COMP, MATH, COMM AND BLAW are loaded. To load all subjects pass the --all-subjects flag.

Usage

To run the webscraper and populate the database with the latest course offerings:

flask --app bcitflex load-db

To run the dev webserver:

flask --app bcitflex run

Roadmap

• Filter by prerequisites
• Individual Course Offerings
• Rate My Professors
• Web app
• GUI
• Return RMP rating
• Indication of data freshness
• Program information
• User relevant course view
• User course wishlist
• User course schedule planner

Contributors

• Sam - 0x53616D75656C
• Jonathan - jonbiemond