Being my first hackathon, I was unsure what to expect or do. Having just met with my advisor, course selection was on my mind thus I ended up trying to make a program related to this topic.
I found this pdf containing all the course listings.
I wanted to pull the relevant information from this file and organize it. This I did using a copius amount of regular expressions with the following Java program:
This worked seemingly well. If you would like to see the data presented in the format below click this link.
MAJOR
Number of courses under this major.
---Course number.
---Course title.
---Areas of knowledge the course satisfies.
---Course description.