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Compose rooms and a scheduler

About 22 minutes · 4 reading + 18 practice and checks
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An original library-room booking simulation using independent objects, invariants, composition and an event history.

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What to include

  • A room-state contract with 10:00 mapped to 3.
  • An independent-instance check with unchanged B.
  • A rejection record with unchanged booking state.
  • A composed booking trace with no event for an unknown room.
  • A composition design note with responsibility boundaries.
  • A tested booking model with independent state and honest rejection evidence.

Review and revise

Use these criteria to check your work and choose what to improve.

  • The implementation or declared simulation follows the supplied contract and retains inspectable original inputs.
  • Normal, boundary and rejected cases are recorded with expected versus observed results.
  • The changed case has a correct explanation and does not rely on hidden state.
  • The project includes source, outputs, instructions and honest tool, privacy and verification limits.
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The idea in everyday life

Scheduler contains A and B. One valid A booking succeeds; an unknown room Z request fails.

The idea

Composition means an object uses other objects to perform part of its work. The scheduler finds a room, delegates validation, and records an event only after a successful booking.

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Compose rooms and a scheduler — original worked practice

Composition means an object uses other objects to perform part of its work. The scheduler finds a room, delegates validation, and records an event only after a successful booking.

Scheduler contains A and B. One valid A booking succeeds; an unknown room Z request fails.

  1. 1. Step 1

    Read the scheduler’s room dictionary.

    You should see: Keys A and B reference Room objects.

    This keeps the rule and its observable result together.

  2. 2. Step 2

    Trace lookup then room.book.

    You should see: The room checks its own capacity and slot.

    This keeps the rule and its observable result together.

  3. 3. Step 3

    Find the event append after success.

    You should see: Only a completed booking adds an event.

    This keeps the rule and its observable result together.

  4. 4. Step 4

    Test Z and inspect room/event state.

    You should see: A composed booking trace with no event for an unknown room.

    This keeps the rule and its observable result together.

Now change one thing

After one success and two rejected requests, enter event count.

Your work

What to finish

A composed booking trace with no event for an unknown room.

Common mistake

Watch for this

Recording an event before the room accepts the booking, creating a false success in the audit trail.

How can I tell I understand it?

Explain and demonstrate the required distinction: Composition means an object uses other objects to perform part of its work. The scheduler finds a room, delegates validation, and records an event only after a successful booking. Show a changed input and the expected result without weakening this contract.

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Quick knowledge check

Answer all 3 questions. Get at least 2 right and the lesson completes automatically.

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1Who enforces room capacity?
2When should an event be recorded?
3Which describes composition?
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docs.python.org — dataclasses.html
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01

Relevant documented module/API behavior inspected during expansion authoring; actual execution evidence is recorded separately. No grant eligibility is established.

Access: Official page retrieved with the web reader on 2026-10-01. Documentation reading does not certify execution in every native tool or browser.

Reuse: Original local practice files, fictional data, worked examples and questions. Concepts paraphrased and linked; source exercises are not copied.

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