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Software Essentials
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Software Essentials

by Adair Dingle
July 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
436 pages
12h 27m
English
Chapman and Hall/CRC
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Chapter 5
Design and
Documentation
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In this chapter, we examine the design and documentation of so-
ware, using the class construct as the focal point of design. Promoting
internal control of state, we cover essential functions of a class: construc-
tors, destructors, accessors, mutators, and private utility functions. We
note language dierences when important. e intent is to scaold so-
ware design on top of class construction, emphasizing the separation of
internal elements from the external interface. We also present an eective
means of documenting design, the specication ...
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ISBN: 9781439841204