Objective

This project is designed to help you develop your skills at designing software systems.  This homework is considered a closed homework.  Make sure you read the open/closed policy before continuing working on this project. 

Description

For this homework you will write a report describing the classes and interfaces you will use to implement a popular online photo management system called flickr (http://www.flickr.com/). Notice that for this homework you will not implement any code and you will not need an account in Flickr.

Requirements

• Using the Flickr Feature Tour at http://www.flickr.com/tour/ provide a design (classes and interfaces) you will use to implement the functionality associated with Flickr. Base your design on the information provided in theTour. Important: You need to design the classes/interfaces required for managing the pictures (e.g., the model part of the Model-View-Controller Paradigm) not classes/interfaces required to provide the web/email interface to Flickr.
  
• For each class/interface provide the expected methods and instance variables. You don't need to provide parameters/return types for your methods unless you understand is necessary.
• You must write a report that will not exceed 8 pages. Keep in mind that longer reports will not necessary receive more credit. A two-page report that provides the expected classes/interfaces will receive full credit.
• You should not use UML in your report.
• You do not have to implement any of your classes.

Your homework will be graded as follows:

• (85%) Design represents the expected Flickr's functionality.
• (15%) Report Organization/Clarity.

Submission

Upload a word file named report.doc (yes, we need a doc file) using the submit server available at https://submit.cs.umd.edu:8443/. Make sure you select the submit server entry (HW#4) that corresponds to this homework.  Verify that you have submitted the correct file by downloading from the submit server the file you submitted.

Academic Integrity

Please make sure you read the academic integrity section of the syllabus so you understand what is permissible in our programming projects.  We want to remind you that we check your project against other students' projects and any case of academic dishonesty will be referred to the University's Office of Judicial Program.