Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
436239 Science of Computer Programming 2006 23 Pages PDF
Abstract

All programmers should understand the concept of software families and know the techniques for constructing them. This paper suggests that classic problems, such as well-known algorithms and data structures, are good sources for examples to use in a study of software family design. The paper describes two case studies that can be used to introduce students in a Java software design course to the construction of software families using software frameworks. The first is the family of programs that use the well-known divide and conquer algorithmic strategy. The second is the family of programs that carry out traversals of binary trees.

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