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My Intro to Object-Oriented Programming |
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Class Notes Wednesday September 6 , 2000 |
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CG began class with definitions for binding and environment. He then began a demonstration of these new concepts (and concepts already learned) through a sample problem which determined the cost of constructing a necklace given prices and quantities for thread and beads. This problem was attacked using the problem solving strategy called ``problem decomposition'' (see definitions). CG noted that it will be important in this class to artfully name all variables (variable names always begin in lowercase) within reason. The sample problem and the definition of problem decomposition took nearly the entire class session. Here is the code:
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