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+# Orarend
+A school schedule app written in C# using Xamarin.
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+This app can obtain the schedule automatically from the school's website and update it as needed. Any temporary changes are marked red.
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+It downloads the site HTML and uses regex to fix some issues that the parser can't handle correctly and then parses the code.