Update app.py

app.py

@@ -28,8 +28,10 @@ def recommend(index):
 st.set_page_config(page_title='DiscoverCourses', page_icon=':bird:')
 st.header('DiscoverCourses')
 st.write('')
+st.write("Do you like the tech + social impact focus of CS51? Excited by film-centered courses like FILMEDIA245B? Saw a cool study-abroad course (OSPISTAN76) and want similar on-campus options? Enter DiscoverCourses. Just pick a course and get dozens of recommendations based on its title or description.")
 
-selected_course = st.selectbox('Pick a course from the dropdown:',course_title_list)
+selected_course = st.selectbox('Pick a course from the dropdown (or click on it and start typing to search).',course_title_list)
+st.write("Description: "+coursedf.iloc[np.where((coursedf['ref']+": "+coursedf['title'])==selected_course)[0][0],3])
 
 container = st.container()
 maincol1, maincol2 = container.columns(2)
@@ -43,10 +45,9 @@ if maincol1.button('Recommend by title',use_container_width=True):
         st.subheader(course_id+": "+result)
         with st.expander("See description"):
             st.write(coursedf.iloc[index,3]) #Using the new coursedf because it has proper descriptions for each course
-        link = "[ExploreCourses](https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?q="+course_id+"+"+result.replace(" ","+")+")"
-        st.markdown(link, unsafe_allow_html=True)
-        link = "[Carta](https://carta-beta.stanford.edu/results/"+course_id+")"
-        st.markdown(link, unsafe_allow_html=True)
+        link1 = "[ExploreCourses ↗](https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?q="+course_id+"+"+result.replace(" ","+")+")"
+        link2 = "[Carta ↗](https://carta-beta.stanford.edu/results/"+course_id+")"
+        st.markdown(link1+"   "+link2, unsafe_allow_html=True)
         st.divider()
         
 if maincol2.button('Recommend by description',use_container_width=True):
@@ -58,10 +59,9 @@ if maincol2.button('Recommend by description',use_container_width=True):
         st.subheader(course_id+": "+result)
         with st.expander("See description"):
             st.write(coursedf.iloc[index,3]) #Using the new coursedf because it has proper descriptions for each course
-        link = "[ExploreCourses](https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?q="+course_id+"+"+result.replace(" ","+")+")"
-        st.markdown(link, unsafe_allow_html=True)
-        link = "[Carta](https://carta-beta.stanford.edu/results/"+course_id+")"
-        st.markdown(link, unsafe_allow_html=True)
+        link1 = "[ExploreCourses ↗](https://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?q="+course_id+"+"+result.replace(" ","+")+")"
+        link2 = "[Carta ↗](https://carta-beta.stanford.edu/results/"+course_id+")"
+        st.markdown("<span style='color:white'>"+link1+"   "+link2+"</span>", unsafe_allow_html=True)
         st.divider()
 
 st.write('© 2023 Rushank Goyal. All rights reserved. Source for the all-MiniLM-L6-v2 model: Wang, Wenhui, et al. "MiniLM: Deep Self-Attention Distillation for Task-Agnostic Compression of Pre-Trained Transformers." arXiv, 25 Feb. 2020, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2002.10957.')