Program Development, Java Classes, and Object-Oriented Design

Flashcards covering key concepts in Program Development, Java Classes, and Object-Oriented Design from the lecture notes.

Requirements

Tasks that a program must accomplish, focusing on 'what to do' rather than 'how to do it'. May include problem descriptions, functionalities and feature lists, and use-case descriptions

Design

How a program will accomplish its requirements, breaking the solution into manageable pieces, defining what each piece will do, identifying necessary classes and objects, and detailing how individual methods will accomplish their tasks. Includes UI design aspects like appearance and user interaction via storyboards and descriptions.

Implementation

Translating a design into source code

Testing

Attempts to find errors; ensures to solve the intended problem under all the constraints specified in the requirements

Debugging

Determining the cause of a problem and fixing it

Class

A concept for a group (classification) of objects with the same behaviors

Object

An instance of a class

CleverGame class

Represents a single card game played by 4 players

Player class

Represents a single player for a card game

ScoreCard class

Represents a ScoreCard for a card game

Cards class

Represents a set of zero or more playing cards

Card class

Represents a single playing card