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WatTools

A collection of tools for University of Waterloo students, by University of Waterloo students.

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General

fund-my-watcard

A tool helps you add funds to your WatCard easily.
Authors: Weitian Xing, Kevin Lu, Yuxin Fan
Source code: Find us on github

Mr. Transcript

Web application for UW students that scrapes a transcript to calculate GPA on a 4.0 scale.
Authors: Cole Lin
Source code: Github Link

UW Living

Reviews for student housing in Waterloo.

UWaterloo Subreddit

News from around campus and other discussions.

Course Selection

Bird Courses

Looking for easy marks?

Quest Schedule Exporter

Helps export your class schedule so you can use it with Google Calendar, a mobile calendar application or anything else that uses the iCalendar format.
Source code: github

UW Flow

Explore thousands of course and professor reviews from UW students.

UWaterloo AddCourse

A Python package and script that lets you continuously query QUEST to add you into a particular course. No longer do you have to get up at an obscure time to get the course you want. Now just run the handy script and let it run over night or all day on your laptop while you can go eat spam and eggs at one of the university's fine culinary establishments.
Author: Kieran Colford
Source code: github

uWaterloo Schedule Exporter (Chrome plugin)

Export your University of Waterloo class schedule directly from Quest.
Author: Baraa Hamodi

UWPath

UWPath is a degree planning website built for UWaterloo students. You can plan your courses in our degree planner, where we verify prerequisites, corequisites, antirequisites and degree fulfillment on your behalf.

WaterlooWorks

UW Info Session (iOS app)

UWaterloo Info Session is an unofficial iOS app used by students at University of Waterloo to query updated employer information sessions. Never look up the info session calendar again!
Download: App Store

UWVision

Reviews and salary insights for companies that usually hire on WaterlooWorks.

WaterlooWorks Azure

Azure is the best extension to enhance your experience of WaterlooWorks.
Authors: Zijian Shao

WaterlooWorks Now

Adds disruptive and innovative features to WaterlooWorks, improving its UI/UX.
Authors: Gurpreet Gill, Peyman Gardideh, Neil Lohana
Source code: Github

D2L/Learn

d2lmtfa

Chrome extension to prevent desire2learn from logging you out when you are not looking. d2lmtfa stands for Desire To Leave Me The F*ck Alone. Warning: This may or may not be in a working state right now...
Source code: github

desire2download

d2d is a tool to download all of the content from the University of Waterloo's new learning management system which uses Desire2Learn instead of the old Angel based UWACE.
Source code: github

Learn Darklight

Learn Darklight offers multiple themes and advanced features for Waterloo Learn.
Author: Zijian Shao
Source code: github

GRT/Transit

Grand River Transit (web app)

A mobile-friendly web application with tools for finding nearby stops and next buses, viewing route maps, and more! Works on most major desktop and mobile browsers.
Author: Jason Li

Class Helpers

Buhrmatter

It will automatically format your C++ closer to the slightly-quirky format used in CS343 https://www.student.cs.uwaterloo.ca/ ~cs343/CPPCodingGuidelines.shtml
Author: balasanjay
Source code: Github

George +

New features include Syntax Highlighting, Code Folding, In-Browser storage, Proof Auto-renumbering (type ")" on a new line), Auto-complete, Code snippets (type "a{")
Author: Ted Ying, Akash Sant, Allen Wang

Marmoset CLI

This package provides both a command line script for interacting with Marmoset and a Python package to write programs/scripts that can interact with Marmoset.
Author: Ford Peprah
Download: Marmoset CLI
Source code: on Github

Math 135

This is a handy little app that allows students to easily look-up important algebraic propositions for the Math-135 course at the University of Waterloo.
Author: Vikas Joshi
Download: Play Store
Source code: GitHub

uC++ Sublime Highlighting

An extension for Sublime Text that highlights uC++, the language used in CS343.
Author: Philip Duncan
Source code: Github

uw-wkrpt

A LaTeX document class to make you life easier when writing work term reports for the University of Waterloo. The latest and most popular fork is at https://github.com/mhyee/uw-wkrpt
Author: Casey Banner
Source code: github

Weather

WATisRain (Android)

WATisRain is an Android app to help you navigate the buildings of the University of Waterloo without going outside (ie, by going through the various tunnels between buildings). This may prove to be useful when it's raining outside, or if it's freezing cold.
Author: Bai Li
Source code: github

Weatherloo

Weatherloo fetches and displays data from the University of Waterloo Weather Station (weather.uwaterloo.ca).

Weatherloo - Chrome extension

A simple chrome extension that displays weather and 7-day forecast information. Boasting a beautifully clean user interface, Weatherloo uses the UW Weather Station and OpenWeatherMap to satisfy your weather needs.
Author: Neivin Mathew
Source code: Github

Guides

The Meticulous US Intern's Guide

A detailed to-do list for US internships, from the moment you have an offer to when you’re filing your taxes the year after.
Authors: Anthony Zhang
Source code: github

UW Engineering Student Guide

A collection of tips, resources, and services around Waterloo to help students succeed in University. If you are a senior, please contribute.

Waterloo-USA Intern Guide

If you are considering a co-op term in the US, or are preparing for one, make sure you read this! If you just finished one, please contribute.
Source code: github

Developer-focused

University of Waterloo API

Official University of Waterloo API
Author: Kartik Talwar

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This site built by Kyle Lexmond and the WatTools team, derived from Viktor Stanchev's original site. Source code is available on Github

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