Integrative Coding:

Design Patterns;
Interfaces;
Inheritance.
Miscellaneous Issues:
Adopt and Adapt vs. make;
Versioning and version control

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 Design pattern:
 A Lower level framework for structuring an application than architectures (Sometimes,
called micro-architecture).
 Reusable collaborations that solve sub problems within an application.

 Why Design Patterns?

 Design patterns support object-oriented reuse at a high level of abstraction
 Design patterns provide a “framework” that guides and constrains object-oriented
implementation

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 The Gang of Four (GoF) Design Patterns book describes twenty-three
patterns arranged into three groups.

 The groups help classify how the patterns are used.

1. Creational patterns : used to help make a system independent of how its

objects are created, composed and represented.
2. Structural patterns are concerned with how classes and objects are
organized and composed to build larger structures.
3. Behavioral patterns are used to deal with assignment of responsibilities
to objects and communication between objects.

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Creational Patterns
 Abstract Factory - create instances of other objects
Eg:-creating GUI components for different GUI toolkits
 Factory Method -common interface for creating subclasses
 Singleton -create only one instance of a class
Structural Patterns
 Decorator - add more responsibilities to an object dynamically
Eg:- adding scrolling to a text view
 Facade- higher level unified interface to a set of objects in a subsystem
 Proxy- interface layer between objects
Behavioral Patterns
 Iterator- a means to access all the elements of objects sequentially
 Momento- capture and save the current state of an object
 Observer- when any numbers of objects (the Observers) need to be
notified automatically
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Application Programming Interfaces
 Are sets of requirements that govern how one application can talk to
another
 applications to share data and take actions on one another's behalf
without requiring developers to share all of their software's code
 define exactly how a program will interact with the rest of the software
world—saving time, resources
 Eg:- System-level APIs- cut and paste LibreOffice document into an
Excel spreadsheet
 Eg:-FacebookAPIs- Facebook users sign into many apps and Web sites
using their Facebook ID
 Eg:-Web APIs – games let players chat, post high scores and invite
friends to play via Face book, right there in the middle of a game

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Inheritance
 derive a new class based on an existing class, with modifications or
extensions
 A subclass inherits all the variables and methods from its super classes,
including its immediate parent as well as all the ancestors
 avoid duplication and reduce redundancy
Types of Inheritance
 Simple , Multilevel, Multiple, hierarchical and Hybrid
Inheritance and Abstract class
 Abstract Method:- a method with only signature (i.e., the method name,
the list of arguments and the return type) without implementation (i.e.,
the method’s body).
 use the keyword abstract to declare an abstract method

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Abstract Class
 A class containing one or more abstract methods is called an abstract
class.
 must be declared with a class-modifier abstract
 provides a template for further development
Notes:
 An abstract method cannot be declared final, as final method cannot be
overridden.
 An abstract method must be overridden in a descendent before it can
be used.
 An abstract method cannot be private (which generates a compilation
error, because private method is not visible to the subclass and thus
cannot be overridden.
In Java, define a subclass using the keyword "extends", e.g.,
class MyApplet extends java.applet.Applet {.....}
class Cylinder extends Circle {......}

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 Shape.java
abstract public class Shape
{
private String color; // Private member variable
public Shape (String color) // Constructor
{ this.color = color;
}
public String toString()
{
return "Shape of color=\"" + color + "\"";
}
// All Shape subclasses must implement a method called getArea()
abstract public double getArea();
}
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 Version control enables multiple people to simultaneously work on a
single project.
 Each person edits his or her own copy of the files and chooses when to
share those changes with the rest of the team.
 temporary or partial edits by one person do not interfere with another
person's work.
 enables one person to use multiple computers to work on a project
 integrates work done simultaneously by different team members
 In rare cases, when two people make conflicting edits to the same line of
a file, then the version control system requests human assistance in
deciding what to do
 Version control gives access to historical versions of the project

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 If make a mistake, roll back to a previous version. reproduce and
understand a bug report on a past version of your software.
 undo specific edits without losing all the work that was done in the
meanwhile.
 For any part of a file, determine when, why, and by whom it was ever
edited.
 Version control uses a repository (a database of changes) and a working
copy (checkout) where you do your work
 working copy is your personal copy of all the files in the project.
edits to this copy, without affecting your teammates. commit your
changes to a repository
 repository is database of all the edits to, and/or historical versions
(snapshots) of, your project
update your working copy to incorporate any new edits or versions

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 Two varieties of version control: centralized (one repository) and
distributed (multiple repositories)
 Some popular version control systems are Mercurial (distributed), Git
(distributed), and Subversion (centralized).
 The main difference between centralized and distributed version control
is the number of repositories.
 In centralized version control, there is just one repository, and in
distributed version control, there are multiple repositories.

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