Grade Cutoff Squeezer

Website for approximating the grade cutoffs for courses by using user-submitted data.

Website GitHub

Features

• User authentication with JWT
• Course grade submission system
• Dynamic grade cutoff calculation
• Search-enabled course selection
• Rate limiting for submissions
• Mobile-responsive design
• Year-wise course tracking

Tech Stack

Frontend

• React.js
• Chakra UI
• Vite

Backend

• Python Flask
• SQLAlchemy
• JWT Authentication

Setup

Prerequisites

• Node.js
• NPM
• Python 3

Running

1. Backend

   cd backend
   python3 -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate
   pip install -r requirements.txt
   python3 run.py

2. Frontend

   cd frontend
   npm install
   npx @chakra-ui/cli snippet add toaster
   npx @chakra-ui/cli snippet add field
   npx @chakra-ui/cli snippet add provider
   npx @chakra-ui/cli snippet add select
   npm run dev # for development, otherwise: npm run build

TODO

• Allow users to add courses
• Fix width when no course is selected
• Interface for viewing grade cutoffs
• [!] Add info for users, like “only one submission per course”
• Styling
• [!!] Refactor backend code
• [!] Use dropdown with search input for course selection
• Mobile responsiveness
• [!!] Replace temp and secret stuff with env variables
• [!!] use jwt for cookies
• Allow same course in different years
• Rate limiting