Course Discourse

This is a website designed to connect students investigating their next semester's course load with peers who have already taken these courses.

Installation

Two additional components are required to host this website: Node.JS and MongoDB.

Setting up Mongo

1. Create database called 'course-discourse'
2. Initialize the 'courses' collection with course information and the 'datas' collection available majors, minors, clubs, and interests.
   • Each course document contains a 'year', 'season', 'courseName', 'courseNumber', 'departmentName', and 'departmentCode' fields
     • Macalester's course information is provided in "courses.json"
   • Each data collection contains a 'name', and a 'values' fields
     • The name field is the data listed (eg majors)
     • The values field is a list of data elements
     • Macalester's course information is provided in "data.json"

Setting up Node

1. Run    npm install    to download packages.
2. Run    node app/app.js    to start the server.