chenling1022/ip

Duke User Guide

Duke is a personal assistant that allows users to add, delete, check and find tasks. The tasks added will be saved to a text file named testduke.txt.

Setting up in Intellij

Prerequisites: JDK 11, update IntelliJ to the most recent version.

On IntelliJ version 2020.3.1 (latest) and beyond

1. Open IntelliJ (if you are not in the welcome screen, click File > Close Project to close the existing project first)

2. Import the project into IntelliJ as follows:

   1. Click Open
   2. Select the project directory, and click OK
   3. If there are any further prompts, accept the defaults.

3. Configure the project to use JDK 11 (not other versions) as explained in here.

4. After that, locate the src/main/java/Duke.java file, right-click it, and choose Run Duke.main(). If the setup is correct, you should see something like the output below.

   Hello from
    ____        _        
   |  _ \ _   _| | _____ 
   | | | | | | | |/ / _ \
   | |_| | |_| |   <  __/
   |____/ \__,_|_|\_\___|
   

User guide

Features

todo

to add a todo task into a task list, no date/time needed.

event

####to add a event task into a task list, date/time needs to be specified in the format of [event description]/at [date/time].

deadline

to add a deadline task into a task list, date/time needs to be specified in the format of [deadline description]/by [date/time],

delete

to delete a task in the task list that the user previously added in. Format: delete [task number].

done

to mark a task as done, this will be reflected as a tick. Format: done [task number].

list

to list out all available tasks that the user has added inside.

find

to search for all tasks in the list and find the task that contains the user's input keyword. Format: find [keyword].

bye

to end the program

to take note:

1.the file is loaded automatically everytime the user runs the program

2.the tasks added throughout the run of the program will be stored into the file

3.after the user inputs "bye", the file is automatically cleared to a blank text file, and the user needs to rerun the program

4.feel free to explore all functions of Duke!