Loose Design with Interfaces

I am very interested in design patterns but i have not really had it easy trying to understand how they work .Anyway i think i am getting better in understanding them. I read this wonderful post from this blog Software-design-patterns-for-everyone It helped me understand some patterns better . The truth is that practice makes perfect ."I have to write my own game engine using patterns to learn patterns".Very possible as everything else is, if the goals are realistic to attend .

I am currently reading been reading Professional ASP.NET MVC 2: NerdDinner and in the book there is use of a couple of patterns like repository patterns ,dependency control and others (still reading ) .The was one aspect that caught me and i think it was very interesting It was about loose design with interfaces that can make test driven development(TDD)easy .Objects are not to be passed as parameters just what they do is passed as parameters .After understanding it i decided to try to implement it by building a small home simulator .The program simple simulates a home .I am still learning but to learn something you have to start by learning something somewhere in some way you can understand .

I could have just created a home object and other homes can inherited from it.
What if i want simulate a hotel someday ?
Do i have to start everything adding a bigger home and doing changes in the code in many places .?
All i want is a simulator for a home .The object can simulate home activities .This object can simulate any home .
Call it and tell it how you want the home to be simulated.
Lets simulate a home using interfaces .

namespace LearningInterfaces
{
     public interface ISimulateHomeActivities   // main interface
    {
        void CookFood(string foodType);
        void Sleep(string time);
        void DoLaundry();      
    }

}

This class uses the interface to simulate the home .

namespace LearningInterfaces
{
     public class HomeActivities // main simulator manager
    {
         public void DoActivity(ISimulateHomeActivities activity, string foodType , string sleepTime);
         {
             activity.DoLaundry();
             activity.CookFood(foodType);
             activity.Sleep(sleepTime);
         }
    }
}

Its time to get homes that want to be simulated
The Talla's home is the first on the list .It implements the ISimulateHomeactivities

namespace LearningInterfaces
{
     public class TallasHome:ISimulateHomeActivities
    {
        #region ISimulateHomeActivities Members

        public void CookFood(string foodType)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("We are going to cook " + foodType + " today");
        }

        public void Sleep(string time)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("We  usually sleep at  " + time);
        }

        public void DoLaundry()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("We  are doing laundry ");
        }
        #endregion
    }
}

Peter loved my home simulator and wants his home to be simulated

namespace LearningInterfaces
{
    public  class PetersHome:ISimulateHomeActivities
    {

        #region ISimulateHomeActivities Members

        public void CookFood(string foodType)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("We are going to cook " + foodType + " today");
        }

        public void Sleep(string time)
        {
            Console.WriteLine("We  usually sleep at  "+ time);
        }

        public void DoLaundry()
        {
            Console.WriteLine("We  are doing laundry ");
        }

        #endregion
    }
}

Finally lets get the simulation running

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System
namespace m.Text;
LearningInterfaces
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {    var tallasHome = new TallasHome();
             var petersHome = new PetersHome();
             var activities = new HomeActivities();
             activities.DoActivity(tallasHome, "Rice and Chicken", "10 pm");
             Console.WriteLine("----------------------------------------------");
             activities.DoActivity(petersHome, "Pasta with Fish", "11:30 pm");

        }
    }
}

The simulator running prints out the following------simulating Talla,s and Peter's home

We are doing laundry
We are going to cook Rice and Chicken today
We usually sleep at 10 pm
----------------------------------------------
We are doing laundry
We are going to cook Pasta with Fish today
We usually sleep at 11:30 pm
Press any key to continue . . .

Happy programming ............................