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Nathan Tan - Project Portfolio Page

Overview

PlanPal is a desktop application designed for international students studying in NUS. It functions as an all-in-one organizational tool, enabling users to manage contacts, track expenses, and schedule activities. The user interacts with the application using a CLI and is written in Java 17.

Code Contributed: link to code

Summary of Contributions

• Feature: Find Contacts
  • What it does: This feature allows users to filter contacts based on specific keyword or phrase queries.
  • Justification: It enhances the usability by enabling efficient contact retrieval, allowing the user to quickly access information from lengthy lists
• Feature: Find Expenses
  • What it does: This feature allows users to filter expenses based on specific keyword or phrase queries.
  • Justification: It enhances usability by enabling efficient expense retrieval, allowing users to quickly access information from lengthy lists
• Feature: Delete Expense
  • What it does: This feature allows users to delete a specific expense from their expense list based on the index selected
  • Justification: It enhances usability by enabling the user to remove expenses that have been tracked incorrectly
• Feature: Expense Types
  • What it does: This feature allows users to classify expenses according to 4 expense types - FOOD, TRANSPORTATION, ENTERTAINMENT and OTHER
  • Justification: It enhances usability by enabling the user to track their spending based on expense type
• Feature: Expense Type Breakdown
  • What it does: This feature allows users to see the proportion of their spending on different expense types when viewing the expense list
  • Justification: It enhances usability by enabling users to have more information about their expenses, such as:
    • Their total spending on each expense type
    • Their proportion of spending on each expense type
• Enhancements Implemented
  • Improved findInList:
    • Works with all lists and not just contact
    • Queries are case insensitive
    • Fixed strings are ignored
  • Added the /name: field for expenses for easier tracking
  • Added formatting in the list function output to show spending breakdown
• User Guide
  • Project overview and description
  • Documentation for the find feature for both Contacts and Expenses
  • Documentation for the delete feature for Expenses
  • Documentation for Expense Types
  • Command summary table for Expense Manager
• Developer Guide:
  • Overall class diagram for Contact Manager mode
  • Breakdown and descriptions of classes involved in Contact Manager Mode
  • Overall class diagram for Expense Manager mode
  • Breakdown and descriptions of classes involved in Expense Manager Mode
  • Contact Manager: find command
  • Expense Manager: find command, delete command
  • User stories table
• Contributions to team-based tasks
  • Setting up and maintaining the issue tracker
  • Error finding and bug fixes
  • Editing code to make it reusable for other components (e.g.findInList)