Project: TaToolkit

TaToolkit is a desktop application used for teaching assistants to manage their students' personal details and other information related to their classroom. The user interacts with it using a CLI, and it has a GUI created with JavaFX. It is written in Java, and has about 28 kLoC.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

  • Modified Feature: Changed the add command to suit the purposes of TA Toolkit better.

    • What it does: allows the user to add a student to the list of students.
    • Justification: The original add command was designed for a different purpose. I modified it to suit the needs of TA Toolkit, including new student details such as a Telegram ID, GitHub ID, and ClassGroup Name.
    • Highlights: This enhancement affects existing commands and commands to be added in future. It required an in-depth analysis of design alternatives. The implementation too was challenging as it required changes to existing commands.
    • Credits: The code that I modified was part of an existing feature from the AB3 brownfield project that was forked to create the TA Toolkit.

  • Modified Feature: Improved the mark command to accept attendees as well as absentees in a tutorial class.

  • What it does: allows the user to mark students as present or absent in a tutorial class.

  • Justification: The original mark command was designed to mark students as absent only. I modified it to allow marking students as present as well.

  • Highlights: This enhancement required changes to the existing mark command and the addition of new prefixes pre/ and abs/. It also required changes to the storage of student data.

  • Credits: The code that I modified was part of an existing feature created by Tejas, my teammate.

  • Code contributed: RepoSense link

  • Project management:

    • Managed release v1.2 and v1.3 (2 releases) on GitHub

  • Other enhancements:

    • Added persistence for attendance data (Pull request #100
    • Updated the GUI styling for class/groups (Pull request #101
    • Removed all references to the previous application's commands and terminologies (Pull request #106

  • Documentation:

    • User Guide:
      • Added documentation for the features add#39
      • Did cosmetic tweaks to existing documentation of feature list: #74
      • Added changes to the Java installation instructions, yellow label information, and the e-mail address field format instructions: #74
    • Developer Guide:
      • Modified the links that led to the previous repository, and modified the command keywords to reflect any changes that were made in our project.

  • Community:

    • Reviewed 46 PRs from my team members.