04. Standards and Blueprints

When creating object diagrams, we mentioned that we were borrowing from certain standards: the main standard being the Unified Modeling Language (UML). UML provides a number of useful models, figures, and charts that can be used to describe systems and processes. While not typically used outside of academia, you may see it from time-to-time in a very informal or ad-hoc manner like the charts we've included in this session.

An aspect of building object diagrams that translates very well into the code is the idea of defining a single blueprint which can be used to create many instances of an object. Let's see an example of this in the Maze app.