Project 1 Design

Due Date

Objective

The objective of this assignment is to make sure that you begin thinking about your project in a serious way early. This will not only give you experience doing design work, but will help you anticipate the number of hours that you'll need to set aside to be able to complete the project.

The Assignment

Your design assignment is broken down into three parts.
  1. Structure definitions.
    In this section you will design each of the structures necessary for your project -- the RoundToy and Box. Give the complete structure definition as it would appear in your .h file. You may include whatever fields you deem necessary in addition to the attributes listed in the project description.

  2. Function prototypes for any function you plan to provide that are not listed in the project description. Full function header comments must be provided.

  3. A list of tests you plan to perform to verify that your program works properly. You must specify at least 3 tests. Each test must address a different aspect of your program. E.g., you may not list 3 tests that all relate to command line arguments.

    A template for your design document, p1design.txt, is provided in Mr. Frey's public directory. Copy that file

    /afs/umbc.edu/users/d/e/dennis/pub/CMSC202/p1/p1design.txt to your local directory and fill in the necessary information. Submit your modified p1design.txt file to complete this assignment.

    Grading

    You p1design.txt file will count as 10% of your project 1 grade (part of the Correctness). If this file is not submitted by its due date, or if you submit a new version after its due date, you will lose all 10 points.

    Your p1design.txt file will be compared to the header file or files that you submit when Project 1 is due. Minor changes to the design are allowed. A minor change might be changing the way in which one or two parameters are passed.

    If there are major changes between the design document and the header files that are part of the final project, you will lose 5 points. This would indicate that you didn't give sufficient thought to your design before beginning the implementation.