Being a non-native English speaker living in an English speaking country I want My Smart Vocabulary Trainer to help the user learn words and phrases that they use on a day-to-day basis.
What can you do with My Smart Vocabulary Trainer ?
- create a database of words and phrases with your own interpretation
- enrich it with comments and example sentences
- test yourself on your knowledge
- track your learning progress
Who can use it?
My Smart Vocabulary Trainer is for anyone who wants to level up their language game. The design follows the principles of direct applicability, meaning that it allows you apply what you learn, and learning what you need, meaning that you're prompted to learn something that you actually need in your daily life. It is therefore user-driven in its application, pragmatic in its approach, and perfect for any skill-level.
Let's Go! - My Smart Vocabulary Trainer
##User Stories
- As a user I want to be able to save entries to a database [implemented]
- As a user I want to be able to delete entries [implemented]
- As a user I want to be able to search for entries [implemented]
- As a user I want to be able to test myself on a random selection from the database [implemented]
- As a user I want to have a profile where I can
- change my name
- see statistics [implemented]
- reset statistics
- delete the entire database
- delete my profile
- As a user I want to be able to save my profile [implemented]
- As a user I want to be able to reload my profile [implemented]
##Instructions for Grader
- Run VocabAppGuiFX
- Enter your name and hit enter
- Decide whether you'd like to load an example database or not
- You are now in MAIN where you can add an entry to the database ["add X to Y"]
- Go to MORE -> DATABASE and notice that your entry (and the example database if applicable) appears.
- Delete an entry and add a new one ["second required event related to elements of X in Y"] (it is not super robust yet, please add at least description and meaning, comment and example are not required).
- Go to MORE -> TEST to test yourself
- Go to MORE-> QUIT or hit the 'Quit' button to exit, the files will automatically save ["save state of application"].
- Rerun the app with your name. Notice that this time it does not ask about the example database because you are not a new user.
- Go to MORE -> DATABASE to see that your entries are still there ["reload state of application"].
- Go to PROFILE to your success rate from the previous sessions ["visual component"] (currently it only saves when you quit the application, thus the result only appears after you login again)
- You can also search specific entries in your database
##Phase 4: Task 2 Dear Bhavesh, I hope you're well. This is how I implemented Task 2:
- I make appropriate use of the Map interface in SingleEntry. A SingleEntry consists of a HashMap, I use the built in put and get methods to set key and value pairs and retrieve values based on keys.
##Phase 4: Task 3 And this is how I implemented Task 3:
- I fixed poor cohesion in the VocabAppGui. It previously contained the entire logic for the layouts. Now the layouts are in separate classes and VocabAppGui has the sole responsibility of changing the data in the background.
- I also decreased coupling by limiting the access to other classes through fields and instead call methods. An example of that are the event listeners in VocabGui so that it does not know how events are triggered (ie it does not know about the buttons and labels in the layout classes).
##Ideas for extended version
- fix a few things
- option to change existing entry if new entry with duplicate description is added
- scrape websites for example sentences and synonyms
- show awards for reaching 10 entries, 50 entries, 100 entries
- show awards for 50%, 75%, 80% success rate
- allow user to set individual goals such as success rates
- testing under timed conditions
- tracking response time
- export the database in different formats, such as pdf and excel
- be able to import data
- be able to categorize my vocabulary in different categories and display only certain categories which a checkbox
- make an online version