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A Student Guide to Object-Oriented Development
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A Student Guide to Object-Oriented Development

by Carol Britton, Jill Doake
August 2004
Beginner to intermediate
416 pages
9h 25m
English
Butterworth-Heinemann
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5

The class diagram

Learning outcomes

The material and exercises in this chapter will enable you to:

•. Explain the role and purpose of the class diagram in the early phases of development

•. Recognize different stages in building a class diagram

•. Identify the objects and classes in a system and their attributes

•. Construct a class diagram

•. Write a data dictionary to support the class diagram

•. Use packages to group related classes.

Key words you will find in the glossary:

• aggregation

• application domain

• association

• attribute

• class

• collaboration

• data dictionary

• domain model

• inheritance

• multiplicity

• noun analysis

• object

• operation

• package

• problem domain

• use case realization

Introduction

The class diagram ...

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ISBN: 9780750661232