patrickleweryharris / major-finder

A tool for finding your major at UofT

major-finder

A tool for finding your major at UofT

Takes your first year courses and tells you what Specialist, Major or Minor program(s) you are eligible for

Branches

• Development
• Release

Table of Contents

• Background
• Usage
• API
• Notes
• Contribute
• License

Background

UofT offers no easy tool to see what subject programs a student can study given their first year courses. Major finder was created to fill this gap

Usage

Major finder for the UofT St. George campus is currently released here. Major finder for UTSC and UTM is no longer supported.

API

Should you wish to develop major finder for another campus/school, all you need do is create a json file for that school, then add this code into the find_majors() function in major-finder.js:

if (campusSelection == 'yourCampus'){
  jsonStr = 'yourJSONURL';
}

A corresponding selector must be added to the accompanying html file:

<input type="radio" name="group1" id="r1" value="yourCampus">
        <label for="item1">Your Campus Name</label>

JSON Format

JSON files that utilize the application should be in the following format:

{
  "postName":"Computer Science Major / Specialist / Minor",
  "calLink":"http://calendar.artsci.utoronto.ca/crs_csc.htm#ASSPE1689",
  "type": "2L",
  "requirements":[
    "CSC148",
    "CSC165",
    "MAT135",
    "MAT136"
  ]
}

Notes

To Do

• Second year program entry
• Type 2L program grade requirements
• Eventual updating to 2017 - 2018 calendar will be required

Programs Not Included:

The following programs are not included due to having non-standard curricula:

• Geoscience Major/Minor (40 different combinations)
• Earth and Environmental Systems Major (35 different combinations)
• Physical and Environmental Geography Specialist/Major/Minor
• Geology Specialist
• Physical & Environmental Geography Major
• Renaissance Studies Specialist / Major / Minor (pick from a list of courses)

Contribute

PRs accepted.

Small note: If editing the Readme, please conform to the standard-readme specification.

License

MIT © Patrick Harris

major-finder's Issues

Verify course code on input [Enhancement]

User request from reddit: verify course code on input i.e. if they type in CSC10841 then give them a warning letting them no that no course is found with that code.

Problematic Programs

The following programs don't work with the JSON file due to complicated requirements:

• Any program without specific first year requirements
• Geoscience Major/Minor
• Earth and Environmental Systems Major
• Ethics, Society and Law Major (Based on breadth reqs.)
• International Relations Specialist (Only some variants of the reqs.)
• Forest Conservation Science Specialist/Major/Minor
• Forest Conservation Specialist/Major/Minor
• Environmental Geography Specialist/Major ("Pick any two courses")
• Human Geography Specialist/Major/Minor ("Pick any two courses")
• Physical and Environmental Geography Specialist/Major/Minor
• Geographic Information Systems Minor
• Urban Studies Specialist/Major/Minor (Pick selections of different courses)
• Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations Specialist/Major/Minor (Many many different combos)
• Peace, Conflict and Justice Specialist/Major (Type 3 with many many requirements)
• Physiology Major/Minor ("Pick any of the following")

Programs that need to be added to the JSON file

• Sociology Specialist/Major/Minor
• South Asian Studies Minor
• Spanish Specialist/Major/Minor
• Statistics Specialist/Major/Minor
• Applied Statistics Specialist
• Women and Gender Studies Specialist/Major/Minor

Tag won't turn red if its longer then 6 characters

Currently, the tag won't turn red when the length of the tag is strictly greater than 6 i.e. When you enter in CSC100H (Which isn't a valid class) the tag won't turn red. However when you type in less then or equal to 6 characters e.g. CSC100 it will turn red.

I'm going to look into this I was just wanted to make sure the bug was reported.

To Do List

• UTM/ UTSC version
• Filtering (i.e. if a user did not take any math courses there is no point searching through programs that require math)

From issue on main plh.io repo:
Some sort of validation would be nice. The finder silently fails when a wrongly formatted input is entered, or if the course doesn't exist.

Maybe dynamically adding one-liner text forms as the user enter more courses instead of one large text box would look nicer.

UTM courses need to be added to list of recognized courses

Requires editing the course_list variable in selectize.js (line 2644)

Error message needs to be repositioned

On chrome the error message for an unknown course does not appear, as it is blocked by other elements