OOP Principles & Design Patterns Training in Denmark

There are no prerequisites for this course. 

Experienced OO programmers wanting to learn advanced concepts.  

• Describe the history, motivations, and principles of design pattern
• Understand how and where design patterns fit into software architecture
• Identify the three general areas of design patterns 
• Properly choose a design pattern based on a use case
• Refactor existing code into a design pattern

Introduction to Design Patterns

• What is a pattern
• What are DPs
• History of Design Patterns
• What is their purpose
• How are they structured
• Types of Design Patterns
• Technology / Language Agnostic
• Technology / Language Specific
• Anti-patterns

DP and OO Design

• Review of Object Oriented Concepts
• DPs role in OO design
• Adopting Design Patterns
• Where do they fit in
• Validity of their adoption
• Pros and Cons us using them
• Applying Design Patterns
• Common issues with design patterns

Refactoring

• What is refactoring
• What is the refactoring procedure
• How do you ensure the refactoring effort worked
• Refactoring to design patterns
• Refactoring implementations of design patterns

General OO Design Patterns

• Gang of Four Book
• Structured around three main categories
• Creational, Behavioral, Structural
• Working with the GoF Book as a catalogue

Creational Patterns

• What are creational patterns
• When would you detect / apply a creational pattern
• Pattern description
• Pattern UML
• Implementation-level example
• Real-world example
• Lab

Structural Patterns

• What are structural patterns
• When would you detect / apply a creational pattern
• Pattern description
• Pattern UML
• Implementation-level example
• Real-world example
• Lab

Behavioral Patterns

• What are structural patterns
• When would you detect / apply a creational pattern
• Pattern description
• Pattern UML
• Implementation-level example
• Real-world example
• Lab