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.

The site can currently be found running on Heroku here.

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.