Beginning C# 2008 Objects: From Concept to Code

6.4. Composite Classes, Revisited

You might recall that when we talked about the fields of the Student class back in Chapter 3, we held off on assigning types to a few of the items shown in Table 6-1.

Table 6.1. Proposed Data Structure for the Student Class

Field Name	Data Type
name	string
studentID	string
birthdate	System.DateTime
address	string
major	string
gpa	double
advisor	Professor
courseLoad	???
transcript	???

Armed with what we now know about collections, we can go back and assign types to the courseLoad and transcript fields.

6.4.1.

6.4.1.1. courseLoad

The courseLoad field is meant to represent a list of all Course objects that the Student is presently enrolled in. So, it makes perfect sense that this field be declared to be simply a standard collection ...