URL

The latest version of our application, CollegeRoute, was tested in Chrome and can be accessed at this url: http://aehsu.scripts.mit.edu/collegeroute.

Team Contributions

Here is a brief overview of a few specific things that each team member did for the prototypes. We all discussed design and everyone touched parts of everything.

Sharon

• Handled the calendar API and adding and removing events to trips and styling of the calendar elements.
• Implemented various versions of the event selection page throughout iterations of the prototype.

Kevin

• Styled many of the pages, adjusted colors/button placement and layout
• Finalized layout of the selecting schools page with the map and panels on the left where school are added/removed from the selections

Alex

• Did the layout and implementations of home page with the find schools button and advanced search critera
• Formatted and styled the last page and added features like hover color and tab styling to tabs on final page
• Created the logo among other styling contributions and design choices
• Designed the "Review Itinerary" text format to make it readable

Zach

• Took care of all of the django backend parts of the website and made data from the pages carry through the website/AJAX interactions for saving trips
• Implemented the search algorithm to narrow schools by inputted school criteria
• Handled the google maps API to select schools (added features like infobubbles to map icons and updating the list of schools based on map view). Also used google maps for the route presented on the final itinerary page.
• Set up user accounts and login/logout capabilities
• Implemented the final page passing data between the different views of the trip and adding functionality.
• Allows the user to update the trip name and implemented autosave