Sockets - Amy

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Solar System

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Comprehension Questions

Question	Answer
When does the initialize method run? What does it do?	It runs any time a new instance of a class is created. It acts as a blueprint for that particular class of object.
Why do you imagine we made our instance variables readable but not writable?	Because the Solar System project was a user-facing application accessed from the command-line, we wanted to control the input from the user to ensure it didn't affect the program's code.
How would your program be different if each planet was stored as a Hash instead of an instance of a class?	The planet creation process would have been more tedious, as each new planet’s details would have needed to be entered in a bit more manually. Additionally, a more complex data structure would need to have been established in order to access planet data—this was relatively easy using instances of a class.
How would your program be different if your SolarSystem class used a Hash instead of an Array to store the list of planets?	The loop I use to call details about a user-specified planet would need to change to reference a key/value set, what that would be specifically would depend on how I structured the data.
The Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) says that each class should be responsible for exactly one thing. Do your classes follow SRP? What responsibilities do they have?	Yes. The SolarSystem class is responsible for keeping track of the planets within the system; the Planet class is responsible for individual planet information.
How did you organize your require statements? Which files needed requires, and which did not? What is the pattern?	The main.rb file required the planet and solar system files because the data stored in each needed to be accessed by the main file. The solar system and planet files did not reference other sources because the information was self-contained.

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Good job overall - this submission is well-organized and clearly hits the learning goals. Keep up the hard work!

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Please remove debug output (like line 37) before submitting projects.

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Is there an enumerable method you could use to make this a little cleaner?