Design Patterns and MVC

Introduction to Software Engineering (CSSE 1001)

The Model-View-Controller (MVC) is a design pattern that separates a game into three components:

• Model: Responsible for storing the state of the game and handling state transitions.
• View: Some (usually visual) representation of the state of the game.
• Controller: An interface for a user to trigger state transitions.

Modularity

Ideally we want these pieces to be modular so that we can swap new model, views, and controllers : without breaking our application.

Exercise 1 Draft the interface for three classes: Model, View, and Controller that implement a game.

Take particular care that arbitrary changes to the implementation to Model do not affect View.