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I had to take down my course-swapping site or be expelled


Welp, looks I might be getting expelled from the University of Washington.   As many of you know, last quarter I built an initial version of HuskySwap for a…

It was a simple app designed to help students find partners to trade spots in critical classes after they filled up. At first it was a fun project to catch up to the latest versions of .NET and Angular with some practice implementing features around database abstraction, real-time chat, and the full stack challenges associated with things like role-based permissions. I wasn’t too ambitious up front; all I wanted was read-only access to automate the course catalog import instead of having to manually enter every class.

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“A Course of Pure Mathematics” – G. H. Hardy (1921) [pdf]