#Virtual Advisor (VA) A coequal UMSL DARS degree audit system. A virtual automated university advisor. VA takes into account the current DARS system and correlates the information on the audit and compares it to the universities predefined tagged computer science degree course requirements, inputted by the client. The VA system, will look at completed course work, compare them to the computer science tagged required courses for degree completion, and provide a customized course catalogue for the end-user, student. VA takes into account prerequisites, student level of education (freshman, sophomore, junior, senior, graduate) and any degree, minor or certificate that the student may almost qualify for, and suggest courses and/or certifications that is feasible with minimal effort. ##Getting Started These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes. See deployment for notes on how to deploy the project on a live system.

###Installing This is a service that will be integrated into the client’s system by VA LLC.

Once the client has hired VA LLC, the company will provide this service to the client.

##Running the tests Current demo can be implemented using a development Integrated Development Environment (IDE). The IDE of choice is IntelliJ IDEA. Once the source code is uploaded into the IDE, then a test can be run.

###Break down into end to end tests VA runs a computer science major student’s degree audit, and suggests a semester -by- semester course plan of action for the end-user. The current DARS system is very complicated and hard to understand, doesn’t give suggestions on getting the student an optimal course work plan of action to get the best results for desired niche within the computer science degree, it doesn’t keep track of courses taken and suggest minors, certifications or double majors to the end-user that they may have already almost accomplished, takes the confusion and stress out of planning a strong plan of action for the end-users, clarifies for the clients administration what students are planning to take in future years/terms so that they may prepare professors, scheduling rooms that fit the amount of students desiring to take the course in future (requires a room capacity database) and eventually give the end-user the option to take the course at night or day.

##Deployment Depends on client needs and/or requirements. VA integrates to the client’s current degree audit system.

##Built With

• CSS - describes how HTML elements should be displayed.
• HTML - is the standard markup language for creating Web pages.
• JavaScript - is the programming language of HTML and the Web.
• Spring - is an application framework and inversion of control container for the Java platform.
• Java - is an object-oriented language.
• Boostrap - is the most popular HTML, CSS, and JS framework in the world.
• CytoScape - is an open source software platform for visualizing complex networks and integrating these with any type of attribute data.

##Versioning We use GitHub for versioning.

##Authors

• Omar Salih – Project Manager / Design / Development
• Kyle Hopfer – Design / Development
• Sam Luebbers – Design / Development
• Chau Tran – Design / Development
• Justin Reusnow – Design / Development
• Alex Nuetzel – Design / Development ##License
• Copyright 2017
• Omar Salih,
• Kyle Hopfer,
• Sam Luebbers,
• Chau Tran,
• Justin Reusnow,
• Karl Nuetzel ##Acknowledgments
• Hat tip to anyone who's code was used
• Inspiration
• Jordan Walker – Mentor