ConuConnect

A smart calendar app for allowing Concordia students to easily discover other students who have similar breaks, with options to filter by.

MVP

Features

• Sign-on / auth via myconcordia credentials
• Get schedule via myconcordia credentials
• Ask user to enter leeway times for before their first class / after their last class
• [Secondary] Ask user to enter list of student IDs a.k.a 'friends list'
  • Student 'friend' discovery by name search
• Display the user's schedule
• For a given break, allow user to list other students with the same break
  • Support filtering by the following criteria:
    • Specific program(s) e.g. computer science, software eng
    • Specific subject(s) e.g. COMP, ENCS, MATH
    • Specific course(s) e.g. COMP 248, ENGR 233
    • Shares common course(s)
    • Same course immediately before/after break
    • Specific person(s)
  • Support ranking by the following criteria:
    • Program similarity composite score (common courses / same program)
    • Break overlap percentage
    • Specific person(s) / friends

Extraz

• Get matches list based off a given week
• Filters:
  • Specific department(s) e.g. engineering, arts, jmsb
• Rankings:
  • asdfsd
• Granular control over leeway times
• Aggregated heatmap of break times for a given student profile
• Tntegration with contacts application for friend discovery
• Mobile support

Legend

• [Secondary] --> Backend feature should be done but minimal UI implementation

Cloning

Make sure to run git update-index --skip-worktree userconfig.py after cloning to ensure that the changes to the config file won't be tracked.

Dependencies/Setup

The scripts are developed/tested with Python 3.6.8.

Linux (currently only supported option)

It is suggested to use a virtual environment, as the selenium package is needed.

1. Create a new virtual environment with: virtualenv -p `which python3.6` venv, activate it with . venv/bin/activate. You should see (venv) prepended to your user@hostname.

2. With your venv activated, install python packages in requirements.txt: pip install -r requirements.txt

3. Download ChromeDriver and copy to the root of this repo. If you want this script to run it has to be in the same folder as the chromedriver executable. Instructions originally found here, how to get chromedriver summarized below.

cd /path/to/ConuConnect
wget https://chromedriver.storage.googleapis.com/2.35/chromedriver_linux64.zip
unzip chromedriver_linux64.zip