Project: TAManager

TAManager is a desktop address book application made for professors to manage their teaching assistants (TA) under their charge. It provides fast access to TAs’ contact details and their availabilities for tutorials/labs. You can track teaching and claimable hours among your TAs and find relief TAs for impromptu events or unforeseen circumstances.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

  • New Feature: Modified the FindCommand that allows you to search for TAs.
    • What it does: Allows the user to search for TA by name, course or free time.
    • Justification: A professor may want to quickly retrieve a TA of a specific name, fetch a list of TAs teaching a certain course or find who’s available during a certain time period.
    • Highlights: This required me to tweak the parsing of the FindCommand to allow for the TAs to be searched by name, course or free time. This also required me to add more tests to FindCommand to ensure that our additional functionalities work as intended.
  • New Feature: Added the courses.json file to hold lesson data for the respective courses.
    • What it does: Stores the lesson data for the respective courses in JSON format.
    • Justification: This ensures that the lesson data for courses is stored in a human editable file format.
    • Highlights: Professors can edit the courses.json file directly to store more lesson data for courses they’re teaching. This implementation was challenging as I had to ensure that the new courses.json file created would not overwrite any existing data in addressbook.json.

  • Code contributed: RepoSense link

  • Project management:
    • Led the brainstorming of user stories for our project
    • Designed the skeleton PPP used by teammates
    • Created labels that enabled us to track the different types of issues and PRs
    • Gathered tasks and improvements for the UG


  • Documentation for Developer Guide:
    • Edited developer guide based on changes to FindCommand #64
    • Modified Storage component diagram due to addition of CoursesStorage #150
  • Documentation for User Guide:
    • Updated UG based on changes made to FindCommand #60
    • Add annotated screenshots and fixed inconsistent formatting in UG #75, #156
    • Apply more user-centric “you” language to the entire UG #146
    • Add understanding GUI section in UG #156
  • Community:
    • PRs reviewed (with non-trivial review comments): #50, #39, #165, #166