Sumit Kumar - Projects

Every semester at IIT Kharagpur comes with the same ritual: pick a handful of electives plus a TA course off a dense department subject list, and try to do it without accidentally scheduling two of them into the same timetable slot. GitHub's own description field for this repo, in my own words at the time, was just "I am lazy" — which is really the whole origin story. So I built a tool to do the conflict-checking for me.

Try it live — no install, no login, no build step. It's a static page: courses are grouped by timetable slot, and picking one automatically blocks every other course in that same slot, including the messier multi-option lab slots where several different slot letters are actually alternative choices rather than one big conflict. You can also mark courses as completed or tough/avoid to keep the whole list organized as you narrow things down. Every pick, flag, and completed mark is saved straight to the browser's localStorage — nothing leaves your machine, and there's nothing to log into.

Making it reusable beyond my own semester

The course list itself lives in a plain COURSES array in data.js, which means adapting this to a different department or semester is just a data-entry exercise, not a code change:

{ code: "CS10003", name: "...", faculty: "...", ltp: "3-0-0", credits: 3, slot: "B31,B32,B33", room: "..." }

Copy your subject list straight from your college ERP's course allocation page, paste the slot codes exactly as the ERP lists them, and the conflict logic just works — a lecture slot like B31,B32,B33 (same letter repeated) collapses into one slot, while a lab slot like J,K,L,N,P,X is treated as multiple alternative options instead of one enormous conflict. If your program needs a different number of picks than "3 electives + 1 TA course," that's one constant to change in state.js.

A small tool, but one that's saved me from at least one real scheduling headache every registration cycle since I built it.