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Drawing Class Diagram - Exercise

Define all class data for Checkbook Manager program

Objective: Define the class data for all the classes of your Checkbook Manager program.

Scoring

This exercise is not scored. It's an opportunity for you to check your understanding of the material covered in the preceding lesson. When you are finished, click the Submit button to view the suggested results.

Instructions

In a previous lesson, we identified the following real-world entities that are involved in managing a checkbook: account, checking account, savings account, CD, money market account, credit card, charge card, Visa, MasterCard, American Express, Discover, stock, bond, social security number, money, check, ATM card, budget, mutual fund, bank, loan, mortgage, checkbook, ledger, cash. Since then, you narrowed the list to CheckingAccount, Check, Deposit, and Bank. You improved the design of Check by creating classes called Money and Date to hold attributes of Check. (It is not uncommon to discover additional classes you need at later stages of modeling.)
Draw class diagrams for these six classes (CheckingAccount, Check, Deposit, Bank, Money, and Date) and any others you feel belong in the system. The diagrams should indicate the names of the classes, the names of the attributes, and the types of each attribute. When an attribute is an instance of another class, draw a line to that class. You may prefer to create separate detailed diagrams for each class and an overview diagram for the relationships.

Hints

The following three classes should be included in your project, but we've spelled them out for you because you probably wouldn't come up with them with unless you are familiar with object-oriented design.
Your project should include a Bank class that represents any institution where an account is stored and a CheckList class and a DepositList class that hold lists of checks and deposits respectively.

The Money class is simple, just two integer attributes:
Money
dollars: Integer
cents: Integer

We represent a bank by a name, a phone number, and an address, all three stored as strings.
Bank
name: String
address: String
phone: String

Recall that although we speak of a phone number, no arithmetic is ever performed on it, and it may contain punctuation, spaces, and alphabetic characters as well as digits: for example, (800) JKL-BANK. Therefore, a phone number is really a string data type, not a number.
Next come the list classes. Note that I do not specify any algorithm for storing the list at this point.

CheckList
checks: Check[]

DepositList
deposits: Deposit[]

The list might be a growable array, a linked list, a hash table, or something else. Implementation details can wait for a later time. On the other hand, you do need some means of indicating a list, so I've adopted the convention of using array brackets, [].