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Introduction

Circles is a free degree planner for UNSW students aiming to provide a an easier way to plan when to take their courses and explore potential courses available and review their degree progression. We have 3 pages which aim to achieve our mentioned goals: Course Selector Page, Term Planner Page and Degree Progression Page.

If you have any questions, please contact either James Ji Hussain Nawaz (Unlicensed) or Jennifer Xu Leonardo Fan (Unlicensed).

UNSW Handbook Scraper

In order to get the data for the courses, we scrape the UNSW handbook. However, the enrolment conditions for courses are written in plain English. We use several tricks to process the condition text, mainly involving regex. After this data is cleaned up and organised, it is ready to be used.

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At UNSW, you must meet certain requirements in order to complete your program. For example, in SENGAH, you must complete all your level 1, 2, 3 and 4 core courses, 36 units of Discipline Electives, 168 total units, etc. We track this using the progression checker.

Tech Stack | Scraper

• Python is used for web scraping and interpreting course conditions

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• React-JS Framework

• Redux for state management

• Ant Design component library

Tech Stack | Backend

• MongoBD MongoDB database

• FastAPI to build our APIs

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