CSE 509  --  HW #5
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Proposal Due:  Monday, 25 February 2002
Design Due:  Monday, 4 March 2002
Date Due:  Monday, 18 March 2002

Goals:

- Continue gaining familiarity with Object-Oriented Programming styles and
  techniques.
- Gain experience in estimating what is do-able with OOP.
- Gain experience in going from specification to design to code.
- Design and create your own classes and user interface.

Overview:

Choose a programming task of interest to you.

Warning:

Careful not to be too ambitious!  Programs often seem simple before you try
writing them yourself!  I prefer a project that can be completed to a project
that is more interesting but that cannot be completed.  Grading will be based
in part on whether you completed your task.

What to hand in:

Proposal: Hand in a hard copy paper with your name and email address on it.

- Describe what your program will do.
- Discuss the problem-domain (unless it is utterly obvious).
- Describe all user interactions.
- This write-up should be 1-3 pages, typewritten.


Design: Hand in a hard copy paper with your name and email address on it, for
your design.  Answer the following questions.

- Which classes will you have?  What are their superclasses?  Instance
  variables?
- For each class, which instance variables will it have?  What are their types?
- Which methods will you write?  What are their parameters?  Types of the
  parameters?
- What will the screen look like?  (Hand-drawings are okay.)
- What menus, buttons, notifiers, etc will be displayed?



Code: Hand-in a single hard copy page with your name and email address on it.
Answer the following questions:

- Did you complete the task described in your proposal?  If not, why not?
- Did you follow your original design exactly?  What changes were made?
- What comments do you have about your program?
- What comments do you have about your experience in this project?
- E-mail the code to harry@cs.pdx.edu.