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COSC2531 Programming Fundamentals - Rmit University

1. Overview
The main objective of this assignment is to familiarize you with object-oriented design and programming. Object-oriented programming helps to solve complex problems by coming up with a number of domain classes and associations. However, identifying meaningful classes and interactions requires a fair amount of design experience. Such experience cannot be gained by classroom-based teaching alone but must be gained through project experience. This assignment is designed to introduce different concepts such as inheritance, abstract classes, method overloading, method overriding, and polymorphism.

You should develop this assignment in an iterative fashion (as opposed to completing it in one sitting). You can and should get started now (when this assignment specification is posted on Canvas) as there are concepts from previous lessons that you can employ to do this assignment.
If there are questions, you can ask via the lectorial, practical sessions or the Canvas discussion forum (Canvas/Discussions/Discussion on Assessment 2). Note that the Canvas discussion forum is preferable as it allows other students to see your questions as well. Also, you should ask questions in a general manner, for example, you should replicate your problem in a different context in isolation before posting, and you must not post your code on the Canvas discussion forum.

Assessment Criteria
This assignment will determine your ability to:
i. Follow coding, convention and behavioural requirements provided in this document and in the course lessons;

ii. Independently solve a problem by using programming concepts taught over the duration of the course;
iii. Write and debug Python code independently;
iv. Document code;
v. Provide references where due;
vi. Meet deadlines;
vii. Seek clarification from your "supervisor" (instructor) when needed via the Canvas discussion forums; and
viii. Create a program by recalling concepts taught in class, understand and apply concepts relevant to solution, analyse components of the problem, evaluate different approaches.

Learning Outcome 1: Analyse simple computing problems.
Learning Outcome 2: Devise suitable algorithmic solutions and code these algorithmic solutions in a computer programming language.
Learning Outcome 3: Develop maintainable and reusable solutions.
Specifically, upon the completion of this assignment, you will be able to:
- Demonstrate knowledge of basic concepts, syntax and control structures in programming
- Devise solutions for simple computing problems under specific requirements
- Encode the devised solutions into computer programs and test the programs on a computer
- Demonstrate understanding of standard coding conventions and ethical considerations in programming

Assessment Details

Please ensure that you have read Sections 1-3 of this document before going further

Problem Overview: In this assignment, you are developing a retail management system as in Assignment 1 using the object-oriented paradigm. Same as in Assignment 1, this retail management system is for a department store. The cashiers or the store manager of the department store are the ones that use this system to process customers' purchases. You are required to implement the program following the below requirements. Note the requirements in this assignment maybe more complex compared to those in Assignment 1. Also, we will provide you with some sample .txt files (download on Canvas), but you should change the data in these files to test your program as during the marking, we will use different text files to test your program.

Requirements: Your code must meet the following functionalities, code and documentation requirements. Your submission will be graded based on the rubric published on Canvas. Please ensure you read all the requirements and the rubric carefully before working on your assignment.

A - Functionalities Requirements:
There are 4 levels, please ensure you only attempt one level after completing the previous level.

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