A web app to help students plan college tours. It suggests an optimal route to visit a list of user selected colleges by
- dividing the schools into clusters based on their geolocations
- recommending nearby airports
- Solving the Travelling Salesman Problem to create road trip routes within each cluster
Deployed at https://college-visit-planner.up.railway.app/
- Run in production mode using Docker
Execute the following commands in the project root directory:
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docker build collegevisitplanner . to build the docker image
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docker run -p 4567:4567 collegevisitplanner to start the containers
Open http://localhost:4567 to view it in the browser.
- Run in development mode
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cd frontend to enter frontend directory
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npm install to install dependencies
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npm start to start the frontend
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cd ../backend to enter backend directory
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mvn clean package to install dependencies
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./run --gui to run backend
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.
Team Members:
Ashley Oelrich, Kaki Su, Jenny Yu, Tianren Dong
Team Strengths and Weaknesses:
Strengths:
- Attention to detail, persistence in solving bugs, willingness to work long/late hours
- Good at thinking through user needs/putting myself if their perspective
Weakness:
- Don’t have a lot of software engineering experience in general
- No experience with frontend development
Strength:
- Relatively organized and don’t procrastinate much especially in group projects.
- Has some experience managing and working with large-scale projects
- Has some front-end/back-end experiences
Weakness:
- Not great at writing “clean” code
- Not great at thinking about runtime complexity beyond the basics
Strength:
- Have experience in design, attentive to details and user needs, can contribute to improving user interface and usability of the system
- Pay attention to overall system design and code clarity
- Willing to openly communicate about problems
- Willing to devote time
- Actively searching for better solutions
Weakness:
- Do not have a lot of prior software engineering experience
- Sleeping and working schedule may not be the most organized
Strength:
- Have experience with UI design (Figma).
- Know Python programming.
- Persistent with fixing bugs.
- Eager to learn from others.
Weakness:
- No front end experience before CS32.
- Lack of experience working on large/collaborative projects.
- Can get too focused on writing code instead of thinking conceptually.
Mentor TA: Livia Zhu