July 2001
Beginner to intermediate
368 pages
6h 52m
English
book
Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
by Alan Shalloway, James R. Trott
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Overview
This chapter gives an overview of a problem we want to solve: extracting information from a large CAD/CAM database to feed a complex and expensive analysis program. Because the CAD/CAM system continues to evolve, the problem cries out for flexible code.
In this chapter, I give an overview of the CAD/CAM problem, the vocabulary of the domain, and important features of the problem.