UVA Transfer Guide

Table of contents

• General Info
• Technologies
• Cloning
• Sample Images

General Info

Website link: uvatransferguide.com

This website allows transfer students to view transfer equivalencies for UVA courses that administrators have approved. It also allows transfer students to submit new transfer equivalencies which will be reviewed by an administrator.

Technologies

Project created with:

• Python
• HTML
• JavaScript
• Django
• Bootstrap

Project hosted with:

• Heroku - Full-stack Django hosting & PostgreSQL database hosting

Cloning

1. Install Python and Django if you haven't already
2. Clone the repository
3. Navigate to settings.py and change the value of SECURE_SSL_REDIRECT to false
4. Uncomment this code in settings.py in order to use a local SQLite database:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': BASE_DIR / 'db.sqlite3',
    }
}

Then, remove this code in settings.py in order to ensure that the local database is used

DATABASES = {
    'default': dj_database_url.config(default=os.environ.get('DATABASE_URL'))
}

5. Populate the database with UVA courses from the last 4 years by running threadsis.py
6. Set up Google OAuth by following this guide
7. Use the command python manage.py runserver to start the server on localhost with port 8000
8. Everything should be up and running on your localhost

Sample Images

Student searching for all UVA MATH courses with algebra in the title

Student viewing all course equivalencies for a UVA course

Student viewing personal requests that were accepted/rejected by an admin

Admin handling transfer request