This this project aims to be a better alternative to HIS/LSF at the University of Stuttgart for viewing lecture data and planning your timetable.

Eventually one would like to have more functionality (e.g. “I'm currently in building A and have free time, which lectures are available for me to peek into?”), the possibilities are endless.

The project can be seen as two separate parts: a backend and a frontend.

The backend constist of a web crawler (harvester) for retrieving real world data and defines a data format to be used for database storage.

The most important parts of the backend are working already.

The frontend uses the stored data to deliver a full web user experience.

Almost everything remains to be done.

You'll need

• nodejs/npm
• mongodb
• grunt in your path (e.g. npm install -g grunt or through pkgs)
• sass in your path (e.g. install ruby and run gem install sass or through pkgs)

Proceed by doing something like

0. cd to this projects directory
1. Make sure mongodb server is started and listening on default port 27017: Either start the service or run mongod directly (have a look at http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/tutorial/manage-mongodb-processes/ for details).
2. npm install to install dependencies
3. grunt sass to compile stylesheets
4. Run node ./import.js [-v] <command> using a command from the following list (it's probably wise to run these commands in the following order):
   • courseList to import course id's
   • courseData to import actual course data (one web-crawl per id)
   • moduleList same …
   • moduleData same …
   • lectureList same …
   • lectureData same …
   • locationData to import location data for locations referenced by lectures
   • courseDrop, moduleDrop, lectureDrop to wipe your data
5. Run node ./index.js to start a webserver on port 3000 and navigate to http://localhost:3000