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Design patterns for marine biology simulation

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Dung "Zung" Nguyen,

Mathias Ricken,

Stephen WongAuthors Info & Claims

SIGCSE '04: Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

Pages 467 - 471

https://doi.org/10.1145/971300.971459

Published: 01 March 2004 Publication History

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We specify and implement a GUI application that simulates marine biological systems by making extensive use of object-oriented design patterns.The key design patterns are model-view-control, observer/observable, visitor, command, factory method and decorator. These design patterns help delineate the roles and responsibilities of the objects in the system, establish loose coupling between objects and arrange for the objects to communicate and cooperate with one another at the highest level of abstraction. The result is an application that exhibits minimal control flow, yet is powerful, robust, flexible and easy to maintain.Our work entails a non-trivial redesign of the current AP Computer Science Marine Biology Simulation case study and may serve as a case study for an introductory "object-first" curriculum.

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Design patterns for marine biology simulation
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types
        Object oriented languages

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SIGCSE '04: Proceedings of the 35th SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education

March 2004

544 pages

ISBN:1581137982

DOI:10.1145/971300

Conference Chairs:
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Villanova University
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The College of New Jersey
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Ithaca College
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Tom Naps
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh

ACM SIGCSE Bulletin Volume 36, Issue 1
March 2004
501 pages
ISSN:0097-8418
DOI:10.1145/1028174
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