This is a selected history of the CSXL application through October 2026. Release dates describe changes merged to the repository’s main branch; they do not imply every capability was immediately in use by every course. Dates are presented in US Eastern time.
Design credits
The student names beside the Copenhagen designs come from the course’s submission archive. All 16 files were reviewed, and their exported screens are hosted here as PNG sheets at their original export resolution. Smaller WebP images serve as previews. The screens show proposals and placeholder data.
The separate XL Coworking Application wireframes and shared CSXL design template were supplied by Kris Jordan. Individual authorship of those two files is not assigned here. The student proposals are not presented as a one-to-one account of authorship of the later production code.
Release and contributor evidence
- Organizations #68 and events #114 explicitly credit Ajay Gandecha, Jade Keegan, Brianna Ta, and Audrey Toney. Event registration #212 records the next increment.
- Room reservations #250, its review, and the feature specification establish Team B8’s work and authors. #434 records later testing and documentation.
- Initial office hours #443, My Courses office hours #501, recurrence #652, recurrence updates #683, and statistics #739 document successive bodies of work. Statistics contributor names are also recorded in the merged commit’s coauthor credits.
- UTA applications #402, extended applications #529, and signage #697 document further department capabilities. Signage authorship is recorded in its source and release.
Architecture and course materials
The architecture diagram is Ajay Gandecha’s original client/server diagram with SQLAlchemy, introduced in PR #173 on November 17, 2023. The diagram is available as a full-resolution PNG, with smaller WebP previews. It is a teaching diagram from that period, including its CloudApps hosting label.
The Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 course materials document project prompts and learning expectations. The course examples describe assignments and proposals; the release history identifies merged features.
The course overview follows the six threads and two-phase structure in the Spring 2026 first-day slides. Topic details draw on that offering’s lessons on tools and code review, testing, API design, ORMs and transactions, and Angular frontend development. The CSXL applications of those topics are illustrative examples; Spring 2026’s feature platform is LearnWithAI.
Hiring history and images
The hiring section follows the July and August 2024 releases and later changes linked beside the narrative. The August 2 administration release credits Ajay Gandecha and Kris Jordan; Ajay’s hiring summary was merged into that release before it reached main. This summer work extended the earlier student application feature and is not presented as a COMP423 team assignment.
The hiring screenshots show the local October 2026 frontend with sample API responses. Names, identifiers, decisions, rates, enrollment, assignments, and costs are entirely illustrative. The department’s semester budget scale describes its use of the software, not the figures in these screenshots. No personnel records were loaded or edited for the captures.
Historical screenshots
Original development screenshots are preserved from the linked PRs and repository specifications. They show sample content. The welcome image omits the browser chrome; selected office-hours views are cropped to the relevant application content.
The October 2023 coworking view is recreated from 33f0934; the March 2024 reservation view from b13e6dd; and the October 2026 My Courses and recurring-date views from 9cc2433. These historical frontend builds were run and captured in 2026 with sample API responses. Their data is illustrative, not a record of occupancy, reservations, or enrollment.
The Co-Lab drone footage and August 2023 preview photograph are reused from the space retrospective. Kris Jordan identified the film as drone footage recorded inside the Co-Lab. This narrative highlights selected contributions. The student contributor credits follow below, and the repository history records further details. The source is MIT licensed.
