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SE1011
Week 9, Class 1
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Today
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Designing Code
SE-1011 Slide design: Dr. Mark L. Hornick
Instructor: Dr. Yoder
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Old Muddiest Points
having multiple classes and the exact use of each one.
Plus that, how can I figure which classes to create?
More on what can or can't be passed to a method
How do you know when to do this before you've
completed writing the duplicate code?
why make another class, when you can keep the
variables in the main class?
designing and
using classes
parameters
designing
classes
static and main;
designing
classes
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Discussed at start. Discussed during this class. [Instructor answer to the question]
Design exercise:
Consider the following problem: Write a
program to help you find matching clothes for
the day. The program should automatically
suggest pairs of clothes. It should allow you to
specify a pair of clothes. It should determine if
a given pair of clothes matches.
Top-down: Start with a method that does
EVERYTHING and divide it into sub-tasks
Bottom-up: Start with a method that does the
simplest thing you can imagine and work up 3
SE-1011 Slide design: Dr. Mark L. Hornick
Instructor: Dr. Yoder
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Acknowledgement
This course is based on the text
Introduction to Programming with Java by Dean
& Dean, 2nd Edition
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SE-1011 Slide design: Dr. Mark L. Hornick
Instructor: Dr. Yoder
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