Key Insights and Tips: Designing a Library Management System
Explore key insights to design an efficient library management system by understanding common design mistakes and best practices. Learn how to model classes like Book, BookItem, and User correctly, and discover flexible design approaches for search and notifications. This lesson also offers interview tips and connects you to related case studies to deepen your knowledge of core object-oriented design principles.
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You have completed the case study for designing a Library Management system. Now, we will distill the key takeaways from this exercise. This lesson will highlight common design mistakes to watch out for, provide specific interview tips to help you shine, test your knowledge with a short quiz, and point you to related case studies to solidify your understanding of the core OOD principles involved.
Common mistakes
Avoiding these common mistakes will help you develop a more efficient and scalable library management system:
Confusing a book with a book item: Treating the abstract concept of a book and its physical copy as the same thing. You should create a
Bookclass for shared metadata like title and ISBN, ...