I'm a 1st level C# programming student, though I've been dabbling in programming for a few years, and learning above and beyond what the class teaches me is just what I'm doing so that I'm thoroughly prepared once I get out into the job environment. This particular class isn't OOP at all, that's actually the next class, but for this project the teacher said he wouldn't mind if we went above and beyond and did the project in OOP (in fact you can't get an A in his class unless you go above and beyond anyways).
The project is(at this point) to read in an XML file, byte by byte, store element tags to one array, and the data values to another. I fought with him on this(given the .net frameworks dealing on XML) but that was a losing battle. He wants us to code this without using .net XML stuff.
He did provide an example of OOP for this program that he slopped together (originally written in Java, ported to C++, then ported from C++ to C#)
In his example he's got three classes. the first, XMLObject, which contains the arrays, a quasi constructor, getter and setter methods(not properties, which I plan to fix in my version), and a method for adding the < and > to tags to be stored in the arrays (and output to console if need be.)
The second class is a parseXML class. In this one he has fields that keep track of the line count, file offset, tag offset, and strings to hold elements and data.
Again, he's got getter and setter methods, several parse methods that search for different things, and a general parse method that uses the other parse methods(sort of combines them here). Some of these methods make calls to the XMLObject class's methods, and send the parsed element and data values to their respective arrays.
The third class he has is one that has no fields, and has two methods, one for doing ATOI and one for dumping a portion of the file stream to the console.
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