Changing the Graphical Selector

TLDR: The graphical selector should revolve around “completed” courses as opposed to courses that were put in the planner. Or at the very least, have it as an additional feature (i.e. toggle between ‘planned’ view and ‘completed’ view).

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Currently the graphical selector revolves around what courses you’ve planned for so far. However there’s some downsides to this:

• The term planner already shows what courses you have planned.

• Someone who’s planned a majority of their courses, will just see a graph that’s full. Making it useless for them unless they unplan a lot of courses.

• The main use case is to have a visual way of seeing what courses a user can do next. However currently it only shows what can be done next, provided you haven’t planned for it.

If you change the graphical selector and / or have a feature for showing completed courses:

• It’ll differentiate the graphical selector and make it more useful in its own right

• Appeals to users who want to see what they can do based off their completed courses

• Could additionally have a toggle for the progression checker, so it shows progress for completed courses and planned courses.

To make this happen, probably need to:

• Store the current term (webscrape https://www.student.unsw.edu.au/calendar )

• TermPlanner → store the term of each course

• Backend routes to:

  • 1. Return all completed courses

  • 2. Return all courses unlocked by the completed courses

  • anything else I’m forgetting

• Graphical selector → warning if all the planned courses are currently in the unplanned section