NOTE: The hard copy of this assignment, like others in this class, is due at the beginning of the class period. This means that if you are even a minute late, you lose 20%. If you are worried about potentially being late, turn in your assignment ahead of time. Do this by submitting it to me during office hours or by sliding it under my office door. The electronic copy of this assignment is due at 9:00pm on the due date. Submit the electronic copy using the appropriate dropbox in D2L. Do not send assignments to me through email or leave them in my departmental mail box.
As discussed in class and in your readings, subclassing some classes
can be quite difficult in Objective-C. For example, it is very
difficult to subclass NSArray because it defines a class
cluster, a complicating factor with which any subclass must deal.
However, if the reason for wanting to subclass an existing class is to
use the features of that class and add a method, this can be done by
creating a category of that class instead.
Create a category of the NSMutableArray class that adds
a method to randomize the order of the elements in the array. This
should be similar in effect to the shuffle method of the
Collections class in Java.
Turn in both printed and electronic copies of the code, including the interface, the implementation, and appropriate test code to demonstrate the functionality of your category. If you started from code from any other source, be sure to document that in the comments of your code.