instructor_readme.md

#Title: Rental App

###Type:

• Lab / Homeowrk

###Time Required:

• 2 hours+

###Prerequisites:

• Ruby
• Hashes & Arrays
• Blocks
• OOP
• Multi-file project (require_relative)

###Objectives:

• Practice creating and initializing objects

###Activity: As a class, you will be creating an app that models the rental process. The premise is that "Owners of buildings can rent apartments to potential tenants". This app should be created using a code-along style.

• Ask students "What types of objects might you have in an app that manages rentals?"
  • Settle on a list that includes building, person, and apartment
• Ask students "What types of things will each of these do (verbs)? Or what will define them (nouns)? And what type will each be?"

Building - attribute	type
address	string
style	string
has_doorman	boolean
is_walkup	boolean
num_floors	integer
apartments	array of apartment objects

Apartment - attribute	type
price	decimal
is_occupied	boolean
sqft	integer
num_beds	integer
num_baths	integer
renters	array of person objects

Person (assume tenants or prospective tenants)	type
name	string
age	integer
gender	string
apartment	apartment object

• Write attr_accessors for each object
• Write initialize methods for each object
• Write to_s methods for each object
• Write a main.rb file that allows you to build and add new objects

###Explanation

• This is a multi-file project that has a main file for working with the objects, and each class as separate files. Students are expected to build this from ground-up, and perhaps starting with the main.rb file.

###Specification:

• n/a

###Post-mortem:

• What worked?
• Student misunderstandings?