Project: LetsGetHired

LetsGetHired is a desktop application designed to assist in efficiently tracking and managing internship applications and their progress. The user interacts with it using a CLI, and it has a GUI created with JavaFX. This project is a collaborative effort built with Agile methodology and comprehensive testing.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

  • New Feature: View : Added the ability to select and view a specific internship application.

    • What it does : Allows the user to select a specific intern application from the application list through either the CLI or GUI, and view the in-depth details of the application in the select view.
    • Justification : This feature improves the product significantly because it allows the user to have a clear and organised view of an application's details without having to perform any formatting. This is a significant user experience improvement from viewing details from the list view, and facilitates other core features like adding notes to an application, which requires more screen space to render.
    • Highlights : This enhancement required consideration of the layout of the user interface.

  • New Feature : Undo : Added the ability to undo previous commands.

    • What it does : allows the user to undo all previous commands one at a time, up to the time the app was started.
    • Justification : This feature improves the product significantly because a user can make mistakes in commands and the app should provide a convenient way to rectify them. This makes the app more user-friendly as it reduces the destructive nature of some commands such as delete and clear.
    • This enhancement affects existing commands and commands to be added in the future. It required an in-depth analysis of design alternatives.
    • Credits : Sampled the proposed implementation of the undo/redo in AB3, which suggested the creation of a Versioned extension of the InternTracker class which allows committing and undoing changes, but decided against adopting the proposed data structure to manage version control.

  • Code contributed:

  • RepoSense link summarizes my contributions to the codebase

  • PRs authored by me - over 15+ PRs authored and merged

  • Enhancements to existing features:

    • Revamped the GUI color scheme from a dark theme to a light theme #101
    • Updated the coloring of status tags to create better distinction and improve user experience #101
    • Introduced more possible inputs for the status field that would allow users to better track the progress of an application #101

  • Documentation:

    • User Guide:
      • Removed all previous references to AB3 and replaced with appropriate fields from LetsGetHired #44
      • Provided the outlines for the View and Undo commands
    • Developer Guide:
      • Added "useful" user stories and their associated use cases #26
      • Refined and revised use cases after the tutorial #43
      • Added Appendix: Effort section which highlights the difficulty, challenges faced and achievements of our group in the development of LetsGetHired #197
      • Added section on "Redo" under planned enhancements #209

  • Community: