Project: ClassMonitor

ClassMonitor is a desktop app for managing student performances, optimized for use via a Command Line Interface (CLI) while still having the benefits of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). If you can type fast, ClassMonitor can get your contact management tasks done faster than traditional GUI apps.

The user interacts with it using a CLI, and it has a GUI created with JavaFX. It is written in Java, and has about 15 kLoC.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

  • New Feature: Added the ability to give stars to students for class participation.
    • What it does: allows the user to give students a defined number of stars for class participation. Users can also edit the number of stars directly using the edit method.
    • Justification: This feature improves the product significantly because a user (teaching assistant) can now track the performance of students in class, using the number of stars as a gauge for a student’s engagement in class.
    • Highlights: This enhancement introduces a new field under student which diverges from the design of other fields like name or phone number, which are replaced upon edit, however, we allow for replacement of value via edit, as well as accumulation of stars using star. It required an in-depth analysis of design alternatives. The implementation too was challenging as it required proper exception handling to isolate the changes made to the number of stars by star and edit commands.
    • Credits: There is partial use of AB3 code. I was compelled to use the AB3 code design to ensure coherence of code for my parser and command classes.

  • Code contributed: RepoSense link

  • Project management:
    • Managed milestones v1.3 and v1.4 (2 milestone) on GitHub.
    • Encouraged and helped other team members manage their milestones on Github.
  • Enhancements to existing features:
    • Create white UI Theme of ClassMonitor (Pull requests #60)
  • Documentation:
    • User Guide:
      • Update User Guide to include Star Command #33
      • Update User Guide from ped comments: #145
    • Developer Guide:
      • Update Developer Guide to include Star Command (Pull requests #56, #52)
  • Community:
    • PRs reviewed (with non-trivial review comments): #28, #35, #49, #59
    • Contributed to forum discussions (examples: 1, 2, 3, 4)
    • Reported 21 bugs and suggestions for other teams in the class during the ped
    • Tested and provided suggestions for classmates’ ip projects