NUSMorge and My First Hackathon
I had my 24-hour hackathon from this Sunday to Monday. Really great experience. Stayed up all night long coding non-stopped and produced something that actually works. Take a look at my github profile page - there were 108 commits during that period! This is kind of funny because it is exactly half the number of commits I have pushed in a year.
Working in a team of four was also great. I don’t have to style the page, write up the server backend, or parse the data - all pushed to others :P.
Anyway, here’s the product we have hacked out: NUSMorge
[update: new url is http://morge.yjyao.com],
a time table merger that takes in names and corresponding NUS mods
url and produce a merge of everyone’s time table so that you can
clearly see all the free time slots. It even allows you to hide some of
your lessons (for example, if you decide that you can skip that lecture, or
that the lecturer has cancelled it) so you can maybe find more free time
slots. For more information, please see this introductory page. It
is also open sourced.