I need to write an application for school. It's a college finder application, to find colleges and universities in a state.
I organized my ideas and I need some more help.
The application will search results in different categories like cost, housing, location, degrees etc.
How can I obtain data? I can't enter whole data because will be too much data. If I want to check school websites, this will be complicated, because each has different websites. I am a new programmer I need a guide.
It's probably not possible, unless there is some online database you can find with all the data already input. After all, you can't get data that doesn't exist. If there's no school database and you're not willing/able to compile it yourself, where is it supposed to come from?
But, even if such a database did exist (and it might), it would have to have some sort of API you can use to load data using a request directly to the database. Imagine getting facebook information; after the user logs in, you need to use facebook's public API to request and receive data from facebook's servers that you can then take, process, and display in your app.
Perhaps, though, if you lessen the number of categories of data you want to obtain for each school, the task would become more manageable and you could then put together a database yourself.
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"You are talking about a search-engine for colleges
For the data you'll need to build what is known as a "web-crawler", which is a prog designed to go through web-pages (via hyperlinks) and extract (mine) the data from them to be stored in a db on your app
(This proc is known as indexing, I guess)
Your app will then be able to look through its database for answering queries or whatever-else it is expected to do..."
I need to write an application for school. It's a college finder application, to find colleges and universities in a state.
I organized my ideas and I need some more help.
The application will search results in different categories like cost, housing, location, degrees etc.
How can I obtain data? I can't enter whole data because will be too much data. If I want to check school websites, this will be complicated, because each has different websites. I am a new programmer I need a guide.
Thanks
3 minutes of Google with "us dept of education college list"
College Finder Application
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