This document serves as a start document and project planning for the practical group assignment, part of the “Design Patterns”course. The scope of the course is to enable students to understand various design patterns.Design patterns are a toolkit of solutions to common problems in software design. It specifically concerns with communication between objects. This group project will be created in accordance and requirementsof the “OIDP -Design Patterns” Module book version 5.0 of 2022.
The group intends to create a Social Media Platform. Such a platform will allow users to create posts and comments, and to like said posts. Additionally, it can notify users of new posts, comments,or reactions to already existing posts. The application will be presented as a web application and will be written in C# ASP.NET.
- Creating a post via GUI
- Displaying a list of posts
- Liking a post (self-created or another users)
- Commenting on a post (self-created or another users)
The project will make use of different threading methods and techniques, as part of the course and required in implementing some of the features. These are as follows:
- GitHub
- C# ASP.NET
- Iterator - For iterating over the list of possible posts, comments and for filteringthem by different criteria (for instance date or length of the post). This will be manually implemented.
- Factory - For creating and managing the different types of objects (posts, comments, likes etc). The Factory pattern helps to encapsulate the creation and initialization of complex objects, and to provide a consistent interface for users to interact with them.
- Observer - For notifying users of new posts, comments, and likes. The Observer pattern helps to decouple the different components of the social media platform, and to provide a flexible and extensible architecture for handling user interactions and updates.Another use caseis analytics –
- Template - Different posts (image/text/video/hybrid)
- MVC - Forseparation of Concerns and Logic, and to ease the GUI interaction from a coding point of view.
The code can be found in the following public GitHub repository.The software used is Visual Studio 2022, and Figma for the UML.
The “Group” chapter provides an overview into the team responsible for the application development.
Christopher Sulistiyo - christopher.sulistiyo@student.nhlstenden.com - 4850025 Stefan Untura - stefan.untura@student.nhlstenden.com - 4839161 Robert Răchită - robert.rachita@student.nhlstenden.com - 4859367