Chapter 7

Case Studies

Putting It All Together

Abstract

A main theme running throughout the book is to bring the technical content to life through a variety of practical activities, programming exercises and case studies, numerous examples, and analogies. In particular, a single case study runs through the first four “viewpoint” chapters, putting the material into an application context and cross-linking the many themes within and across the chapters.

The multiplayer network game case study was selected because it has a useful set of characteristics that make it ideal as a basis to discuss structure, function, and behavior. However, the documentation for that case study has been dispersed across several chapters with the primary goal of reinforcing ...

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