/// <summary>
/// Defines the feeing instructions for the herbivorous seaturtle
/// </summary>
private void HerbivoreSchedule()
{
// create a new item of type foodschedule
foodscheme = new FoodSchedule();
// adds some items to the list of strings
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Morning: Bowl of mixed seaweed");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Lunch: Seaweed salad, with pieces of mango and dragon fruit");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Evening: Seaweed crackers and fruit salad");
}
/// <summary>
/// Define a schedule for feeding omnivorous pigeons
/// </summary>
private void Omnivorous()
{
// create new foodschedule item.
foodscheme = new FoodSchedule();
// add some items to list
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Morning: One small bowl of insects and seeds");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Lunch: Breadcrums, worms and fireflies");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Evening: Sesame seed crackers and a bowl of small insects");
}
/// <summary>
/// Generate schedule for omnivorous parrots
/// </summary>
private void Omnivore()
{
// create new object of type foodschedule
foodscheme = new FoodSchedule();
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Morning: One bowl of fruit and peanuts");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Lunch: Fruitsallad, peanutbisquits and spiderlegs");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Evening Bowl of fish and tropical fruit");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Observe that this bird should never be fed chocholate");
}
/// <summary>
/// define the feeding schedule for omnivorous chameleons
/// </summary>
private void OmnivorSchedule()
{
// create a new item of type foodschedule
foodscheme = new FoodSchedule();
// add some items in the list
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Morning: 1 plate of fruit and insects");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Lunch fruit and fisch pieces");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Afternoon: 2 pieces of mango");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Evening, 1/2 bird egg and a bowl of insects");
}
/// <summary>
/// Produces a schedule for carnivorous chameleons creating a list of strings to send as parameter to the foodschedule class when
/// instanciated.
/// </summary>
private void CarnivorSchedule()
{
//create an item of the type foodscheme
foodscheme = new FoodSchedule();
// adds some feeding directions for the carnivorous variant of chameleon
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Morning: 1 plate with small fish");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Lunch: Mix of fish and small spiders");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Afernoon: Insect snacks");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Evening: One bowl of spidermeat");
}
/// <summary>
/// Carnivorous schedule for seaturtle used to detail what a meat eating sea turtle animal would eat
/// </summary>
private void CarnivoreSchedule()
{
// create a new object of type Foodschedule
foodscheme = new FoodSchedule();
// add instructions
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Morning: two big salmons and a bowl of northern herring");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Lunch: Landturtle meat and a bowl of cubed raw salmon");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Afernoon: Small tropical fish");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Evening: One bowl of raw sealmeat");
}
/// <summary>
/// defines instructions for feeding an omnivorous seaturtle
/// </summary>
private void OmnivoreSchedule()
{
// create a new item of type foodschedule
foodscheme = new FoodSchedule();
// add instructions
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Morning: A bowl of seaweed, five seaweedcrakers and two small bird eggs");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Lunch: Seaweed sallad with salmon and herring pieces");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Afternoon: Seaweed crackers and sesame seed bread");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Evening: Seaweed, half a salmon and five herrings");
}
/// <summary>
/// Define a schedule for carnivorous pigeons
/// </summary>
private void Carnivorous()
{
// create an obect of type foodschedule
foodscheme = new FoodSchedule();
// add a number of items to the list
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Dawn: The Pigeon will hunt for small insects such as fleas and maggots");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Morning: One small bowl of spiderlegs and bumblebees");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Lunch: One big spider");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Evening: The Pigeon will hunt smaller insects such as fireflies by itself");
}
/// <summary>
/// define a schedule for feeding herbivorous pigeons
/// </summary>
private void Herbivorous()
{
// create new item of type foodschedule
foodscheme = new FoodSchedule();
// add some items
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Morning: Sesame seeds and breadcrumbs");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Lunch: Fruit and berries");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Afternoon: Nuts and various seeds");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Evening: bowl of corn and small nuts");
}
/// <summary>
/// Generate schedule for carnivorous parrots
/// </summary>
private void Carnivore()
{
// create new object of type foodschedule
foodscheme = new FoodSchedule();
// add some items to list
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Morning: Bowl of jumbo insect legs");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Lunch: spiderlegs and giant mosquitos");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Afternoon: Maggots and fishpieces hidden in enclosure for the bird to search");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Evening, bowl of tropical insects");
}
/// <summary>
/// Genereate schedule for herbivorous parrots
/// </summary>
private void Herbivore()
{
// create new foodschedule
foodscheme = new FoodSchedule();
// add some items
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Morning: Half a mango and a bowl of peanuts");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Lunch: Tropical fruits and nuts");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Afternoon: Hide nuts and fruit in enclosure for bird to search");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Occasionally: Some extra nutcrackers");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Evening: Dranonfruit and apples");
}
/// <summary>
/// define the feeding schedule for herbivorous chameleons
/// </summary>
private void HerbivorSchedule()
{
// intitiate new list of strings
// create new instance of foodschedule
foodscheme = new FoodSchedule();
// add some items to the list of strings
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Morning: Plant leaves and fruit pieces");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Lunch: A bowl of friut pieces and plant leaves");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Afternoon: 4 pieces of mango and some water");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Evening: a bowl of mango and apple pieces");
foodscheme.AddFoodScheduleItem("Often: refill water herbivorous chameleons consume much water every day");
}
/// <summary>
/// The below method drives the lokal generate foodschedule methods from within the specific animal objects based on their specie.
/// It take an animal as a parameter(obviosly the recently added one) and search for the speciename within the animal object
/// Switch case can be expanded on later when more species are added
/// </summary>
public void GenerateFoodSchedule(T anim)
{
string specie = (anim as Animal).GetSpecies(); // get the name of the specie
FoodSchedule schedule = new FoodSchedule(); // create new object of foodschedule type
switch (specie) // runs a switch statement based on the string for speciename
{
case "Chameleon":
(anim as Chameleon).GetFoodschedule();
break;
case "Sea Turtle":
(anim as SeaTurtle).GetFoodschedule();
break;
case "Pigeon":
(anim as Pigeon).GetFoodschedule();
break;
case "Parrot":
(anim as Parrot).GetFoodschedule();
break;
}
}
