An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming

By Timothy Budd

Study Guide for Chapter 18


Learning Objectives

After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

Study Questions

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  1. What is a software framework?

  2. How does the use of a software framework simplify the development of a new application? In what way does it constrain the developer?

  3. Why is a framework sometimes called an upside down library?

  4. What is a design pattern? Why is it useful to study design patterns?

  5. What is the common feature that unites all the various different forms of the intermediary pattern?

  6. What is the common feature that unites all the various different forms of the traversal patterns?

  7. What is double dispatching?

  8. In what ways to design patterns and framworks differ? In what ways are they similar?

Contents copyright Timothy Budd, 1995.