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Photosyntech

A C++ Plant Management System Demonstrating Design Patterns

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🌱 Key Features 🌱

Plant Management: Track and manage a virtual collection of plants.
Growth Simulation: Watch your plants grow, change and react based on care routines.
Design Pattern Showcase: A practical C++ demonstration of 12 different GoF design patterns.

Manage a plant inventory

Inventory

Simulate plant life cycles

simulatePlants

Manage Staff

manageStaff

Handle customer interactions

customerInteractions

Watch your plants grow

growth

🚀 Quick Start 🚀

Prerequisites

Core: A C++11 compliant compiler (e.g., g++, clang), make, git, and curl.
For the TUI (with image support): cmake and image loading libraries (e.g., libjpeg) are also required.
Optional Developer Tools: doxygen (docs), gcovr (coverage), valgrind (memory checks).

Installation & Running

# 1. Clone the Repository
git clone https://github.com/marcelstoltz00/Photosyntech.git
cd Photosyntech
 
# 2. Build and Run the Core Unit Tests
make test-run
 
# 3. (Optional) Build and Run the TUI
make tui-manager

🏛️ Design Patterns Used 🏛️

This project employs 12 different design patterns. For a detailed explanation of each, please see their individual pages on our project wiki.

Category	Patterns
Creational	Builder · Prototype · Singleton
Structural	Composite · Decorator · Facade · Flyweight
Behavioral	Iterator · Mediator · Observer · State · Strategy

🛠️ Technologies & Tools 🛠️

🤝 Photosyntech Team 🤝

Photosyntech Team

Name	Student ID	Role
Wilmar Smit	u24584216	TaskMaster
Johan Coetzer	u24564584	Thing One
Marcel Stoltz	u24566552	Thing Two
Michael Tomlinson	u24569705	The Brains And The Brawn
Zamokuhle Zwane	u23533413	The Architect

📊 UML Diagrams 📊

Diagram Type	Link
Activity Diagram	View Diagram
Communication Diagram	View Diagram
Object Diagram	View Diagram
Sequence Diagram	View Diagram
State Diagram	View Diagram
System Class Diagram	View Diagram