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Exercises

  1. Sketch a class hierarchy that relates all of the following classes in a reasonable manner:

    • Apple

    • Banana

    • Beef

    • Beverage

    • Cheese

    • Consumable

    • Dairy Product

    • Food

    • Fruit

    • Green Bean

    • Meat

    • Milk

    • Pork

    • Spinach

    • Vegetable

    • Note any challenges you faced in doing so.

  2. What aspects of a television set would be important to abstract from the perspective of

    • A consumer wishing to buy one?

    • An engineer responsible for designing one?

    • A retailer who sells them?

    • The manufacturer?

  3. Select a problem area that you would like to model from an object-oriented perspective. Ideally, this will be a problem that you're actually going to be working on at your place of employment, or that you have a keen interest in. Assume that you're going to write a program to automate some aspect of this problem area. Write a one-page overview of the requirements for this program, patterned after the Student Registration System case study.

    Make certain that your first paragraph summarizes the intent of the system, as the first paragraph in the SRS case study does. Also, emphasize the functional requirements—that is, those which a nontechnical end user might state as to how the system should behave—and avoid stating technical requirements—for example, "This system must run on a Windows NT platform, and must use the TCP/IP protocol to ".

  4. Read the case study for a Conference Room Reservation System (CRRS) in Appendix B. In your opinion, how effective is this case study as an abstraction: are there details that you think could have been omitted, or missing details that you think would have been important to include? If you had an opportunity to interview the intended users of the CRRS, what additional questions might you ask them to better refine this abstraction?


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