ProDuc: A Productivity Program

Ashley Overman | Curtis Simmons | Lucas Auman

Advised by Dr. Shan Suthaharan

CSC 490-02 Senior Capstone - Spring 2018 - University of North Carolina at Greensboro

What is the goal of ProDuc?

Many students and professionals have difficulty organizing their complicated lives. The combination of personal events, school, and work can be overwhelming and managing time effectively and efficiently is a skill that not many people have mastered. ProDuc is a collection of tools to help organize, manage, and control your personal life, professional life, and/or student life.

What does ProDuc consist of?

ProDuc consists of several key features that allow the user to optimize its usability. These include:

• A student system that allows the user to add their classes and assignments to the calendar and organizes them by semester.
• A professional system that allows the user to add meetings to their calendar and store related meeting agendas and minutes.
• A personal system that allows the user to add other events (such as personal events, fitness goals, budgets, and notes) to their calendar to organize other aspects of their lives.
• A groups system that allows the user to create, edit, leave, and delete groups based from their needs and interests.
• A smart scheduling system works in tandem with the group system that allows the user to quicky and efficiently find a date when all users of a group can meet.
• A backend storage system that stores the user's information, such as username and password (the user does not directly interact with this)

To execute ProDuc on your machine:

ProDuc is implemented as a standalone Java executable that will run in an IDE (Eclipse, NetBeans, IntelliJ, etc.). To run ProDuc locally, follow these steps:

• Clone this GitHub repository into a folder on your machine or download all of the files onto your machine.
• Open your preferred IDE, create a new project, and copy all of the files into this project folder.
• There are two .jar files that are necessary for the successful execution of ProDuc (javax.mail.jar and jcalendar-1.4.jar). Add these files to the build path of the project that was created (note that this process may be different depending on the IDE used).
• The file Main_Launch.java contains the main method that executes the program. Run this file in your IDE and the rest should follow suit.