Notangles

Notangles is an interactive drag-and-drop timetable planner designed to help UNSW students plan their ideal weekly timetable.

Background and Motivation

A few weeks before class registration opens, UNSW releases all of their class information at http://timetable.unsw.edu.au. However, the classes and their respective times are formatted in a way that makes it difficult for students trying to plan out their classes before registrations open. Notangles aims to present this information in an easy to visualise and intuitive fashion, allowing students to plan out their timetable by simply dragging and dropping the classes that they are taking.

Students often find it hard to plan out their classes such that they end up in the same class as their friends. It can also be difficult to plan out times where they can meet up with their friends outside of class. Notangles aims to solve this problem through social timetabling, allowing users to view their friends’ timetables and to also plan out timetables collaboratively.

Running Notangles on your Local Machine

Prerequisites

Before you start, make sure that you have the following software installed.

• Git (standard on Linux) or GitHub Desktop
• Node.js and pnpm (install with npm i -g pnpm)
• Python
• Docker Desktop

Setup

Clone the repository:

git clone git@github.com:devsoc-unsw/notangles.git

Follow README.md files in client, server, and auto_server subdirectories to setup the notangles application.

Documentation

For more information, see our Confluence space.