Design Assignment #1 - 2390Sp96

In STABLE, there is an extended example called Fish World. Fish World features a world of fish (including sharks) and plants (instances of LivingOrganism) that move and eat in an Ocean. Fish World is not particularly well designed. In particular:

• There are two collections of the occupants of the ocean - one in the Ocean instance, and one in the OceanQueue instance.
• Individual instances know what other individual instances they can eat, as opposed to classes knowing what other classes they can eat.
• The user interface is bad, particularly with respect to tracking fish that travel outside of the visible region.
• Living organisms don't reproduce in this simulation, nor do they have a sense of needing to eat (e.g., no energy is ever expended, eating does not increase their energy.)

Do a new design of the Fish World simulation, correcting all of the mistakes above. No code is expected for this assignment! The details on what is to be turned in can be found in the Design Docs writeup. The assignment is due April 9 in class.

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