Design Guidelines
Whereas Chapter 5, “Class Design Guidelines,” concentrated on designing good classes, this chapter focuses on designing good systems. (A system can be defined as classes that interact with each other.) Proper design practices have evolved throughout the history of software development, and there is no reason you should not take advantage of the blood, sweat, and tears of your software predecessors, whether they used OO technologies or not.
One fallacy is that there is one true design methodology. This is not the case. There is no right or wrong way to create a design. There are many design methodologies available today, and they all have their proponents. However, the primary issue is not which design method to use, but simply ...
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