Help make one's writing more fancy:
- Keep track of idioms the user has added.
- Use tags to make searching for certain idioms easier.
- Optional comment box to list the significance of the idiom to the user and when to use it.
- After finding a suitable expression, it can guide one to make changes to their writing.
Anyone that's willing to spend time developing a collection of idioms for future use and wishes to improve their writing through figurative language will hopefully find use in this application.
I wish to improve my proficiency in several languages, particularly Japanese, and one cannot do so without being able to use very idiomatic expressions of a language. Writing is also one of the four aspects of a language, and as the world is becoming more globalized, strong communication skills are becoming more important. Figurative language captures subtleties in meaning, and while they sometimes make one's message unclear, if used effectively, can convey nuanced messages to the reader. I hope this application can aid in this endeavor.
When I encounter a new expression, I also find that a rather deep impression is left within me, and I hope to be able to keep track of these personal experiences over time. As such, this application can also act like a journal.
- As a user, I want to be able to add an idiom entry, with the idiom itself, a reading, meaning, optional comment, and tags to a collection of idioms.
- As a user, I want to be able to add to or remove tags from an idiom.
- As a user, I want to be able to search for tags and view a list of idioms with that tag.
- As a user, I want to be able to edit my comment for an idiom, to account for new experiences or good example sentences with this idiom.
- As a user, I want to be able to save my WritingHelper to file.
- As a user, I want to be able to load my WritingHelper from file.
Wed Nov 24 22:43:08 PST 2021
Created new tag sorrow
Wed Nov 24 22:43:08 PST 2021
New idiom entry has been made
Wed Nov 24 22:43:08 PST 2021
New idiom entry has been made
Wed Nov 24 22:44:11 PST 2021
Created new tag peace
Wed Nov 24 22:44:11 PST 2021
New idiom entry has been made
Wed Nov 24 22:44:17 PST 2021
Comments have been edited
Wed Nov 24 22:44:21 PST 2021
Removed tag sorrow
Wed Nov 24 22:44:21 PST 2021
Created new tag fortune
Wed Nov 24 22:44:26 PST 2021
Removed tag peace
Wed Nov 24 22:44:26 PST 2021
Created new tag nature
Wed Nov 24 22:44:29 PST 2021
Searched for idioms with tag n
Wed Nov 24 22:44:29 PST 2021
Searched for idioms with tag na
Wed Nov 24 22:44:29 PST 2021
Searched for idioms with tag nat
Wed Nov 24 22:44:29 PST 2021
Searched for idioms with tag natu
Wed Nov 24 22:44:29 PST 2021
Searched for idioms with tag natur
Wed Nov 24 22:44:30 PST 2021
Searched for idioms with tag nature
- There are currently bidirectional associations between WritingHelperGUI and IdiomCollectionTableGUI, and between IdiomCollectionTableGUI and IdiomCollectionOptionsGUI. This is high coupling, and I would refactor it so that if big changes were made, I wouldn't have to fix up so many classes. I believe this can be done by removing the association from WritingHelperGUi to IdiomCollectionTableGUI, and from IdiomCollectionTableGUI to IdiomCollectionOptionsGUI
- There is also low cohesion in the IdiomCollectionOptionsGUI. I have allocated making new entries to a new class, but I would also refactor this class so that the other options supported by it are made into new classes. Additionally, the behaviour for printing logged events to the console is in the WritingHelperGUI class, so to further increase cohesion, I would refactor my project to follow the observer pattern.
- If the above were to be done, I would also refactor my project to include some abstract classes or interfaces to lower reduplicated code. Since most of the features supported work with buttons, implementing some common behaviour between all these would be logical.