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Mapping complex objects to other similar complex objects
I am working on two applications that serve the same purpose. The first application is more feature rich and its types are more complex, but uses old technologies and will be retired. It will ...
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Handle hierarchical relationships between large number of enums
I am working on a C# project and I have a somewhat large number of labels (~100) that have some sort of relationships between one another. Here is a minimal dummy example that illustrates this: ...
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What is a good architecture / design pattern for giving multiple shared attributes in different combinations?
I have a need for many different objects to have various combinations of attributes. For a demonstrative example, a flaming dog would have a dog attribute, a flame attribute, and a tail attribute, ...
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How to deal with boolean or enum variables used to decide code flow?
I am working on algorithm implemented in C++ that maintains several enum types. Say 3 to 4 enum types each with at least 4 different values. Plus the code maintains several boolean variables. The code ...
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Push and Pull Communication in object oriented: why Push style is not flexible?
I'm trying to learn Observer Design Pattern and I started to watch the series which belongs to codewithmosh called "The Ultimate Design Pattern Series". in the lesson which was about ...
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Separation of concerns: persisting complex types
I have the following module structure: core persistence extension In my core module, I have an interface: Handler. This interface has multiple implementations in the core module as well as extension ...
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How encapsulating what varies can help us?
I have a question about encapsulation and I read these two topic (this & this) but I got more confused. I've been reading Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design book and I'm trying to ...
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How to handle dependencies between objects/components
Im currently working on a college project on the simulation of magnetic interactions of particles, see physical simulation: design thoughts. Right now im starting to code my system according to this ...
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physical simulation: design thoughts
I'm an applied physics student and currently working on a simulation of the magnetic interactions of multiple protons within a protein. Me having only little experience with programming and almost ...
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What are the considerations between a class variable and a global variable
At first glance, these seem equivalent. If one has the right visibility, one can access a global variable or a class variable from anywhere in the program; There is only one, shared copy of them. So ...
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Refactor to object oriented style and use design patterns
I have an application that has been written in Python and it is used for generating various MIS reports for a specified month. It is now written without using the OOPs concepts or any kind of design ...
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Is it bad practice to have too many direct subclasses?
Let's say we have an undo/redo system and we have a superclass storing an object that should later form a tree of the attributes that can be undone/redone. This would require every class that should ...
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How to handle duplicate null checks
I'm working with a legacy codebase that has a lot of functions with a nullcheck on the same object. Example: std::vector<SessionNode*> * SessionManager::SessionMap; Session * getSession(int ...
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What is the middle ground between understanding basic OOP concepts (inheritance, composition, aggregation) and design/architectural patterns?
I've been coding in python for about 6 years now. I am proficient enough to understand a good amount of the language features. When I look into source code for a number of libraries such as pandas or ...
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Delegating whole class bad practice?
Suppose I have the following struct: struct Dimension { void setDimension(Vector2i dim); Vector2i getDimension() const; bool canShowInformation(); } And this struct uses the Dimension ...
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