1 00:00:00,880 --> 00:00:03,920 Okay, so this is our first, class diagram. 2 00:00:03,920 --> 00:00:06,260 >> So, let me ask you something about. 3 00:00:06,260 --> 00:00:06,520 >> Okay. 4 00:00:06,520 --> 00:00:08,930 >> What we've done so far. I also sent, in what 5 00:00:08,930 --> 00:00:14,490 I sent you, I also had some stories about how the actual 6 00:00:14,490 --> 00:00:16,400 >> Library is used. You asked me to do 7 00:00:16,400 --> 00:00:18,950 that and are we going to take, use that here? 8 00:00:20,160 --> 00:00:23,300 >> Glad you asked actually. yeah. Those are, you know, what we call use 9 00:00:23,300 --> 00:00:25,940 cases, or what we will use as scenarios kind of things that we will 10 00:00:25,940 --> 00:00:28,340 use to derive use cases. And they're also a very good 11 00:00:28,340 --> 00:00:31,450 way of extracting requirements. We're not going to look at them right 12 00:00:31,450 --> 00:00:33,890 now because now, because we're more working on kind of the static 13 00:00:33,890 --> 00:00:37,860 structure of the system. But after we're done with the class diagram, 14 00:00:37,860 --> 00:00:40,700 you know, we will do it at a different time. But 15 00:00:40,700 --> 00:00:43,410 we're going to use those to see how the 16 00:00:43,410 --> 00:00:45,850 libraries actually use them, and see whether we can get more 17 00:00:45,850 --> 00:00:49,000 information that we can use to refine our requirements based on that. 18 00:00:49,000 --> 00:00:49,770 >> Okay. 19 00:00:49,770 --> 00:00:51,020 >> Okay, 20 00:00:51,020 --> 00:00:52,940 So, for now, we'll just focus in on the, 21 00:00:52,940 --> 00:00:54,630 structure, but, just so you know, I'm, 22 00:00:54,630 --> 00:00:55,870 I'm glad you sent them, because they were going 23 00:00:55,870 --> 00:00:57,380 very useful as well. 24 00:00:59,410 --> 00:01:00,840 Okay. So let's see. Well, first of all, let 25 00:01:00,840 --> 00:01:03,030 me, seems like that this is already pretty crowded, 26 00:01:03,030 --> 00:01:06,770 right? We have a number of, classes. So let's 27 00:01:06,770 --> 00:01:10,580 see if there's, some class that may be superfluous and 28 00:01:10,580 --> 00:01:13,310 we can model in a different way. So, for 29 00:01:13,310 --> 00:01:16,360 example, you, while, while thinking of this I was thinking, 30 00:01:16,360 --> 00:01:19,450 the library card, it doesn't really contain much 31 00:01:19,450 --> 00:01:22,736 information, right? So is it basically just the number? 32 00:01:22,736 --> 00:01:23,948 33 00:01:23,948 --> 00:01:30,760 The card has a number on it. We have a separate vendor that does that for us so. 34 00:01:30,760 --> 00:01:30,810 >> Oh. 35 00:01:30,810 --> 00:01:33,270 >> We don't need, it doesn't need to be part of this system, 36 00:01:33,270 --> 00:01:35,450 we just have to make sure that every patron has a library card. 37 00:01:35,450 --> 00:01:37,670 >> Okay, so basically for you, in a sense, the library 38 00:01:37,670 --> 00:01:41,560 card is just an ID that gets associated with a patron. 39 00:01:41,560 --> 00:01:42,120 >> That's right. 40 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:45,380 >> So I think that the best way to represent this, I mean, unless you 41 00:01:45,380 --> 00:01:47,000 need an entity because you are creating it 42 00:01:47,000 --> 00:01:49,160 yourself, but it seems like you are not. 43 00:01:49,160 --> 00:01:52,710 I would just remove this one and I would like to put this, 44 00:01:52,710 --> 00:01:56,020 basically to take the library card number and add it to the pattern. 45 00:01:56,020 --> 00:01:57,100 >> Okay, makes sense. 46 00:01:57,100 --> 00:02:03,000 >> Okay, so I'll add it here. And as 47 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:06,160 an additional attribute. Okay, and it will eliminate this class. 48 00:02:06,160 --> 00:02:06,410 >> Okay. 49 00:02:06,410 --> 00:02:07,580 >> Okay. 50 00:02:09,690 --> 00:02:11,700 Oh, and, wait a second, so I guess 51 00:02:11,700 --> 00:02:13,940 also the child needs a library card number, right? 52 00:02:13,940 --> 00:02:18,320 >> Child needs a library card number, but let me ask you about that. Is, 53 00:02:18,320 --> 00:02:22,050 is child a separate class, or is it just another kind of patron? 54 00:02:22,050 --> 00:02:24,920 >> Oh, I see, I see. Because, yeah, it 55 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:28,490 is sort of a special patron, right? And, so 56 00:02:28,490 --> 00:02:31,730 maybe we should, maybe we should represent it as 57 00:02:31,730 --> 00:02:35,640 a kind of a refinement of the patron. 58 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:38,730 Hm, but then that made me think. So what is 59 00:02:38,730 --> 00:02:42,510 the only thing that characterizes children? Is it just the age? 60 00:02:42,510 --> 00:02:47,440 >> Well, if they're, that they can't check out more than five books. 61 00:02:47,440 --> 00:02:48,890 >> Okay. And the, and the only difference is the 62 00:02:48,890 --> 00:02:52,010 fact that they are less than, you know, twelve years old. 63 00:02:52,010 --> 00:02:52,710 >> Twelve or less, right. 64 00:02:52,710 --> 00:02:56,090 >> Twelve or less. So, I guess, you know, I would probably 65 00:02:56,090 --> 00:03:01,120 like to represent this by making the age explicit in the patron rather 66 00:03:01,120 --> 00:03:04,730 than to represent it as a class. And I'll tell you why, 67 00:03:04,730 --> 00:03:08,300 because one, one of the issues, and you know, that might happen 68 00:03:08,300 --> 00:03:13,070 again, is that, basically, there are patrons that are children. And they're 69 00:03:13,070 --> 00:03:17,130 no longer children, when they come you know 13 or older right. 70 00:03:17,130 --> 00:03:18,100 >> Right. 71 00:03:18,100 --> 00:03:21,990 >> And if we represent them with a separate class in a sense, then we 72 00:03:21,990 --> 00:03:26,620 cannot really change the type of an instance of these classes. 73 00:03:26,620 --> 00:03:28,920 So we're left to kind of destroy the patron, create 74 00:03:28,920 --> 00:03:31,190 a new one, so that means we also have to transfer 75 00:03:31,190 --> 00:03:33,510 any history we want to keep history and so on. 76 00:03:33,510 --> 00:03:35,680 So I, I think I kind of like better the idea 77 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,560 that I represent the age exclusively in 78 00:03:39,560 --> 00:03:42,700 the patron, and then I'll behave differently, based on whether the 79 00:03:42,700 --> 00:03:45,910 patron is 12 years old, or younger, or 13 or, 80 00:03:45,910 --> 00:03:49,600 13 or older. This, do you see any problem with that? 81 00:03:49,600 --> 00:03:51,210 >> It makes things a little simpler. 82 00:03:51,210 --> 00:03:51,490 >> Okay, 83 00:03:51,490 --> 00:03:53,550 and we actually, it allows us also to eliminate 84 00:03:53,550 --> 00:03:56,450 one class here. So I'm going to proceed this way. 85 00:03:56,450 --> 00:03:59,450 I'm going to eliminate the children class, and I'm going to 86 00:03:59,450 --> 00:04:03,600 put the age in the patron. Okay, and let me 87 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:07,020 see. But in this spirit, actually, something else that jumps 88 00:04:07,020 --> 00:04:09,740 at me is this idea of the bestseller, because I 89 00:04:09,740 --> 00:04:11,850 kind of feel like, we might have the same 90 00:04:11,850 --> 00:04:15,085 problem. So, what is the story? What is a bestseller. 91 00:04:15,085 --> 00:04:16,850 >> Well it's 92 00:04:16,850 --> 00:04:20,750 an item that we want to restrict how 93 00:04:20,750 --> 00:04:23,896 long people can keep, because there is such demand for it. 94 00:04:23,896 --> 00:04:26,880 >> I see, and so basically a book that's a 95 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:30,450 bestseller, like the New York Times bestseller, is a bestseller forever? 96 00:04:30,450 --> 00:04:32,683 >> No, no, no it's hot for 97 00:04:32,683 --> 00:04:35,940 awhile, and then it becomes just a regular item. 98 00:04:35,940 --> 00:04:38,318 >> I see. Hm. Then I guess it's a 99 00:04:38,318 --> 00:04:40,349 similar situation to the one I was mentioning before, right? 100 00:04:40,349 --> 00:04:40,980 >> Okay. 101 00:04:40,980 --> 00:04:41,800 >> That if we have a book, 102 00:04:41,800 --> 00:04:44,530 it will kind of have to change its type if it becomes a best seller. 103 00:04:44,530 --> 00:04:47,218 Then we have to change its type again, if it's no longer a best seller. 104 00:04:47,218 --> 00:04:47,790 >> Right. 105 00:04:47,790 --> 00:04:48,920 >> So it seems to me that a better 106 00:04:48,920 --> 00:04:52,150 way to represent this, is just to eliminate this BestSeller 107 00:04:52,150 --> 00:04:55,060 class and instead, I'm going to put the best seller 108 00:04:55,060 --> 00:04:58,190 attribute, which would just be a Boolean in the book. 109 00:04:58,190 --> 00:05:00,190 >> Okay, what do you mean by Boolean? 110 00:05:00,190 --> 00:05:02,280 >> Right. We don't know what Boolean is, right? The Boolean is 111 00:05:02,280 --> 00:05:04,940 basically just a number. It can have two values, right? True or false. 112 00:05:04,940 --> 00:05:05,380 >> Okay. 113 00:05:05,380 --> 00:05:06,830 >> So we usually, normally use it 114 00:05:06,830 --> 00:05:09,510 in this in this case. Imagine one, zero, 115 00:05:09,510 --> 00:05:10,970 right? Then it's just kind of the basic. 116 00:05:10,970 --> 00:05:11,120 >> Okay. 117 00:05:11,120 --> 00:05:12,250 >> You know, the bits, right? 118 00:05:12,250 --> 00:05:12,590 >> Okay. 119 00:05:12,590 --> 00:05:14,730 >> So, this is just telling us, it's like a flag 120 00:05:14,730 --> 00:05:16,672 that is telling this book is a best seller, or not. 121 00:05:16,672 --> 00:05:17,053 >> Okay. 122 00:05:17,053 --> 00:05:20,920 >> It's very easy to change this value and make a book a best 123 00:05:20,920 --> 00:05:22,880 seller or not a best seller, than 124 00:05:22,880 --> 00:05:26,210 just creating and destroying instances of these classes. 125 00:05:26,210 --> 00:05:27,135 >> Okay, makes sense. 126 00:05:27,135 --> 00:05:32,630 >> Okay, so at this point, this already looks better, right? Because we have, 127 00:05:32,630 --> 00:05:35,590 less classes, and I think we did, yeah, we 128 00:05:35,590 --> 00:05:38,775 did some serious cleanup. That's good. Okay, so now that 129 00:05:38,775 --> 00:05:40,975 we eliminated some of this, what I would like to 130 00:05:40,975 --> 00:05:42,845 do, as I said, we are going to both clean 131 00:05:42,845 --> 00:05:45,222 up, but also refine. I would like to go 132 00:05:45,222 --> 00:05:48,826 back to our, requirements and see whether we can identify 133 00:05:48,826 --> 00:05:52,566 additional attributes for this, class that maybe are not as 134 00:05:52,566 --> 00:05:55,120 obvious as the one that we saw so far, okay?