Search by Professor

[zack-overflow]

I think a common use of LL is not only to browse specific course reviews, but to browse reviews for certain professors across courses. Currently, I know most students simply google a professor's last name followed by "layup list." This usually does the job, but it is far from efficient. The current search feature for courses is very well executed, but I think searching by professor would be a great addition. Glancing at the Course and CourseOffering models, I think I see why the original LL team may not have implemented it, but I think you guys (or we) could figure it out.

Obviously, we first have to fix #17 to consolidate the professor data, but that seems doable.

Also, thank you guys (@jaismith @ziruihao) so much for picking up this project again! It's amazing how long the code has been dormant given the crazy amount of usage.

[jaismith]

Hey Zack, thanks for the suggestion! This is actually something we're currently working on, and we agree it would be a huge value add to the site. Do you have any specific features in mind you'd want to see here beyond simple search-by-professor functionality?

[zack-overflow]

Thank you Jai! I mean of course it would be cool to look at developing some sort of simple front end (like a profile page) for each professor with the classes they've taught and aggregated medians/reviews. That's gravy though, even a simple search would be great.