Pearson

Higher Nationals in
Computing

Unit 20: Advanced Programming

Issue 1
 Higher National Certificate/Diploma in
Computing
Assignment Brief
Student Name/ID Number
Unit Number and Title 20: Advanced Programming
Academic Year
Unit Tutor
Assignment Title UML Documentation
Issue Date
Submission Date
IV Name & Date

Submission Format
Part 01 :
 10 min presentation about the OOP Concept
 Formal report which analysis the relationship between OO paradigm and design patterns
Part 02 :
 The submission should be in the form of a series of UML diagrams, collated into a single PDF.
Using a suitable UML tool.
Part 03 :
 Documentation for program implementation including the relevant class codes and design
patterns
 Report to evaluate the use of design patterns for the given purpose.
Part 04 :
 10 min presentation to evaluate the different design patterns

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Unit Learning Outcomes
LO1 Examine the key components related to the object-oriented programming paradigm, analysing
design pattern types

LO2 Design a series of UML class diagrams

LO3 Implement code applying design patterns

LO4 Investigate scenarios with respect to design pattern

Assignment Brief and Guidance

You are required to complete a program that implements a basic Ships Booking System (SBS).
The SBS allows a user to create harbors, shipping company, and ships for the shipping
company. Each Shipping company is associated with a set of ships. A ship has an originating
harbor and a destination harbor. The originating and destination harbors cannot be the same.
Each ship is associated with a three section (first class, second class and third class). Each ship
class consists of seats organized in rows and columns.

1. Create harbor: A harbor must have a name consisting of exactly three alphabetic
characters. No two harbors can have the same name.
2. Create shipping company: A shipping company has a name that must have a length less
than 6. No two shipping company can have the same name.
3. Create a ship given shipping company name, the name of an originating harbor, the
name of a destination harbor, a ship number, and a departure date: A ship has an
identifier that is a string of alphanumeric characters.
4. Create a section for a ship: The number of seat rows and columns must be provided
when creating a section.
5. Find available ships: Finds all ships from an originating harbor to a destination harbor
with seats that are not booked on a given date.
6. Book a seat: Books an available seat from a given originating harbor to a destination
harbor on a particular date, on a given ship.
7. Print system details: Displays attribute values for all objects (e.g., harbor, shipping
company) in system.

Your program must include the following classes.

Systems Manager: This class provides the interface to the system. That is, users interact with

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the system by calling operations in the Systems Manager. The Systems Manager is linked to all
the harbour and ship company objects in the system. When it is created, the Systems Manager
has no harbor or shipping company objects linked to it. To create harbor and shipping
company, the createHarbor() and createShippingCompany() operations defined in this class
must be invoked.

The class also contains operations for creating sections of ships (e.g., first class, second class
and third class), finding available ships between two harbors, and booking a seat on a ship. A
printout of information on all the harbors, shipping company, ships, ship sections and seats is
obtained by invoking displaySystemDetails()

CreateHarbor (String n): Creates an harbor object and links it to the Systems Manager. The
harbor will have a name (code) n; n must have exactly three characters. No two harbors can
have the same name.

CreateHarbor (String n): Creates an shipping company object with name n and links it to the
Systems Manager. A shipping company has a name that must have a length less than 6. No two
shipping company can have the same name.

CreateShip(String aname, String orig, String dest, int year, int month, int day, String id): Creates
a ship for an shipping company named sname, from an originating harbor (orig) to a
destination harbor(dest) on a particular date. The ship has an identifier (id).

CreateSection(String shi, String SlID, int rows, int cols, SeatClass s): Creates a section, of class s,
for a ship with identifier SlID, associated with an shipping company, scid. The section will
contain the input number of rows and columns.

FindAvailableShips(String orig, String dest): Finds all ships from harbor origin to harbor
destination with seats that are not booked.

BookSeat(String air, String fl, SeatClass s, int row, char col): Books seat in given row and column
in section s, on ship sl of shpping company scid.

DisplaySystemDetails(): Displays attribute values for all objects (e.g., harbors, ships) in system.

Harbour: Objects of this class represent harbors. The only information maintained is the name,
which must be exactly 3 characters in length.

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Shipping company: This class maintains information about Shipping company. A Shipping
company can have 0 or more ships associated with it. When created a Shipping company is not
associated with any ships. All ships for a given Shipping company must have unique ship ids.

Ship: This class maintains information about ships. A ship can be associated with 0 or more
ship sections. There can only be one ship section of a particular seat class in a ship, e.g., only
one first class, one second class and one third class. The seat classes are defined by the
enumerator type SeatClass which defines the values first, second and third. The major
operations of Ships are summarized below.

ShipSection: This class maintains information about ship sections. A ship section has a seat
class (first, second or third) and must have at least 1 seat. hasAvailableSeats() returns true if the
section has some seats that are not booked, and bookSeat() books an available seat. A ship
section can contain at most 100 rows of seats and at most 10 columns of seats.

Seat: This class maintains information about seats. Specifically, a seat has an identifier (a seat is
identified by a row number and a column character, where the character is a letter from A to J),
and a status which indicates whether the seat is booked or not.

Part 01 :
Before starting to implement the above project your senior officer ask you to prepare a
presentation and the report which explain the object oriented concept to your juniors.

a) Create a 10 Min presentation about the object oriented programming paradigm

including the following:
1. Different between object and class
2. Characteristics of the object oriented paradigm
3. Object oriented class relationship

b) Create a report to analysis the object oriented concept and design patterns. This report
should determine a design pattern from creational, structural and behavioural pattern
type. Should analyse the relationship between object oriented paradigm and design
pattern.

Part 02:
As a program designer you should design and build a Class Responsibility Collaboration (CRC)
cards and Class diagram for the above scenario by concentrating design patterns. You should

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use standard UML tool and need to show the relationship between identify classes.

Part 03
a) Implement above classes using preferred object oriented programming language and
develop the code applying design patterns.
b) Create a report to evaluate the use of design patterns for the given purpose.

Part 04

Create a 10 min presentation to investigate and review the usage of range of design pattern
with relevant examples. Critically evaluate the range of design pattern and justify your choice.

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 Learning Outcomes and Assessment Criteria

Pass Merit Distinction

LO1 Examine the key components related to the object-oriented

programming paradigm, analysing design pattern types
D1 Analyse the relationship
P1 Examine the characteristics M1 Determine a design between the object-oriented
of the object-oriented pattern from each of the paradigm and design
paradigm as well as the creational, structural, and patterns.
various class relationships. behavioural pattern types.

LO2 Design a series of UML class diagrams

P2 Design and build class M2 Define class diagrams for D2 Define/refine class
diagrams using a UML tool. specific design patterns using a diagrams derived from a
UML tool. given code scenario using a
UML tool.

L03 Implement code applying design patterns

D3 Define/refine class
P3 Build an application M3 Develop code that diagrams derived from a
derived from UML class implements a design pattern for given code scenario using a
diagram. a given purpose. UML tool.

L04 Investigate scenarios with respect to design patterns

D4 Critically evaluate a range
P4 Discuss a range of design M4 Reconcile the most design patterns against the
patterns with relevant appropriate design pattern from range of given scenarios with
examples of creational, a range with a series of given justification of your choices.
structural and behavioural scenarios.
pattern types.

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