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docs: Add Account hierarchy explanation and interview/system-design notes
WHAT the update contains:
Provides a clear explanation of the Account class hierarchy (Account, SavingsAccount, LoanAccount) and the main demo (InheritanceIMP).
Describes the code-level concepts demonstrated:
- Encapsulation via private fields and getters/setters
- Inheritance through SavingsAccount and LoanAccount
- Method overriding and specialized behaviors (deposit, withdraw, payEMI, repay)
- Polymorphism use-cases and access considerations
Includes interview-ready talking points about design, trade-offs, and what to cover in system design interviews (OOP, SOLID, concurrency, patterns, DB design, caching, microservices).
WHY this matters:
Documents both the implementation intent and how to explain it in interviews, turning code into teachable material.
Helps reviewers and future you succinctly explain design decisions and trade-offs without re-deriving them from code.
Equips you to answer follow-up interview questions (why not performance improvement from encapsulation, why protected vs private balance, constructor choices, error handling strategy).
HOW it works:
Summarizes the code behavior:
- Account: base fields (accNo, name, address, phno, dob) with getters and minimal setters, protected balance.
- SavingsAccount: deposit and withdraw with validation, balance increases/decreases.
- LoanAccount: initialized with loan amount as balance; payEMI and repay reduce outstanding loan and avoid negative balances.
Explains runtime behavior shown in InheritanceIMP:
- Demonstrates deposits/withdrawals and loan repayments with prints for verification.
Provides interview answers and checklist to discuss when asked about system design (requirements, components, trade-offs, optimizations).
Tips and gotchas:
Do not claim encapsulation improves runtime performance; its benefits are maintainability, safety, and modularity.
balance is protected for convenience in subclasses but making it private and exposing protected helper methods is safer for encapsulation.
For production readiness, add input validation (throw exceptions on invalid operations), transactional guarantees for banking ops, and proper logging/auditing.
Consider using Account references to hold SavingsAccount or LoanAccount instances in demos to illustrate polymorphism.
When preparing for interviews, be ready to discuss scaling the design (sharding accounts, consistency models, caching strategies, idempotency, monitoring).
Use-cases:
Repository documentation for onboarding and interview prep.
In-repo teaching material for junior engineers to learn OOP, inheritance, and banking domain modelling.
Starter template for evolving into a more robust banking simulation or microservice (accounts service, ledger, transaction processing).
Short key: docs-account-hierarchy banking-demo interview-guide.
Signed-off-by: https://github.com/Someshdiwan <[email protected]>1 parent fdd5bf9 commit 4b10f9c
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