Beginning C# 2008 Objects: From Concept to Code

6.6. Exercises

1. Given the following abstraction:

   A book is a collection of chapters, which are each collections of pages.

   sketch out the code for the Book, Chapter, and Page classes:

   • Invent whatever fields you think would be relevant, taking advantage of collections as fields where appropriate.

   • Include methods on the Chapter class for adding pages and for determining how many pages a chapter contains.

   • Include methods on the Book class for adding chapters, for determining how many chapters the book contains, for determining how many pages the book contains (hint: use delegation!), and for printing out a book's table of contents.

2. What general type(s) of collection(s)—ordered list, sorted ordered list, set, dictionary—might you use to represent each of ...