Project: CLIMods

CLIMods is a native desktop application for NUS students to explore, manage and plan academic modules that they are interested in taking. Power users of the command line/terminal will be able to plan and manage their modules much faster than doing it on nusmods.com.

Given below are my contributions to the project.

  • New Feature: Added the ability to find modules using keywords.
    • What it does: Allow users to find modules offered by NUS using keywords
    • Justification: This feature improves the product significantly because a user can easily search for a module using keywords without needing to know the exact module code.
    • Highlights: This feature allows for valid regex expressions to be used as keywords. Additionally, it also employs a simple sorting heuristics to rank the results based on relevance for a better user experience.
  • New Feature: Added a history command that allows the user to navigate to previous commands using <Up>/<Down> arrow keys
    • What it does: Keeps track of a command history and allow users to traverse through the command history using arrow keys.
    • Justification: The features improves the user experience as a user can easily reuse previous commands without having to type it all over again.
    • Highlights: It required a careful consideration for various designs that are implemented in popular shells. Inspired by the zsh design, the command history does not keep consecutive duplicate commands to reduce clutter.

  • Code contributed: RepoSense link

  • Project management:
    • Managed releases v1.2 - v1.4 (3 releases) on GitHub
    • Maintained milestone issues
    • Plan out tasks for each milestone sprints (v1.2 -> v1.4)
  • Enhancements to existing features:
    • Integrate the command history with existing CommandBox
    • Contributed to the design of CliMods UI components
  • Documentation:
    • User Guide:
      • Added simple visual demonstration for commands
      • Contributed to the find command documentation
    • Developer Guide:
      • Added implementation details of the command history feature.
      • Updated UML diagram for the Logic component
  • Community:
    • PRs reviewed (with non-trivial review comments): #59, #82, #85
  • Tools:
    • Integrated a third party library (swagger-codegen/openapi-generator) to the project (#45)