Creating Classes and Methods and Design Notation

Problem: How can the solution to a problem be broken down into separate components?

• Data members
• Methods
  • Accessors
  • Mutators
• Constructors
• UML component diagrams
• public, private, protected, and default

Problem: How do components work together to solve a problem?

• Defining and calling methods
• Passing arguments to methods
  • Formal parameters vs. actual parameters
  • Primitive types
  • Object types
• Scope
• Method return values
• UML interaction diagrams