Attention: as of February 11, 2025, Carleton's room schedule site (and the .ics files) no longer shows course or time details, effectively making this useless. 😥
This Python script checks what classes are happening inside Carleton University's lecture halls at the time the script runs.
Download the monthly iCalendar files from the lecture halls you would like to use, then add them to the ScheduleFiles folder.
These files are named by Carleton's building and room code (i.e. AB 000 or AB 0000), which is crucial to correctly displaying lecture hall code names.
Merged classes will show two classes in the terminal, each with separate course codes.
PiP is required
If you don't have PiP in your environment, :
Download get-pip.py from Bootstrap get-pip.py
Run "python get-pip.py"
After that runs, run "pip install -r requirements.txt" in your environment terminal.
Run python checkSchedules.py in your terminal.
Favourites.txt is a text file that holds one of your favourite courses on each line. These courses will show "FAVOURITE" above them when the program runs if they are shown.
Run python checkSchedules.py fav in your terminal, and you will be shown your current favourite courses (from Favourites.txt). You will then be prompted to add new favourites, which will be added to Favourites.txt. The program will then run as normal, listing current courses/times.
Run python checkSchedules.py next in your terminal, and the program will print out the next class that will happen in the lecture hall, in addition to the current one happening.
To view only the next class happening, run python checkSchedules.py nextOnly. If you run both nextOnly and next, it will only show the next class, with the former argument overriding the latter's usual behaviour.
The system arguments "next", "nextOnly" and "fav" can all be used at the same time.