Idea: Tech Tree

[peey]

Description: Display courses as an explorable tree, where a parent node is a pre-requisite of child nodes

Possible Features:

• A checkbox which lets you choose between seeing only mandatory prerequisites or both mandatory and desirable prerequisites
• Course description is also displayed, and perhaps a link to the complete course structure document
• Using information from branches' mandatory courses, show the minimum year in which one could take a certain course
• Information can be easily manually updated by anyone (e.g. storing data on a github repo like byld-website does)
• Should look beautiful

Potential Challenges:

• Changing course codes over the years, changing course names
• Changing course offer cycles may break the "minimum year" feature

Problem(s) it Solves: Lets people explore courses which they may not know even exist, lets people plan ahead for their courses

Resources:

• There's a list on institute's page, though no idea how up-to date it is
• Shared course descriptions could be mined for prerequisites using excel libraries
• Some cool way to display stuff: https://mapping.mit.edu/

Known Implementations:

• None

[Daksh]

Might want to have a look at

1. https://github.com/wombats-writing-code/xoces (got from MIT mapping website)
2. https://github.com/varughese/pitt-course-graph