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Software Design Patterns: Best Practices for Software Developers

Gain insights into software design patterns to create extensible, maintainable, and flexible code. Explore real-world examples in Java and enhance your problem-solving and architectural skills.

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27 Lessons

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Gain insights into software design patterns to create extensible, maintainable, and flexible code. Explore real-world examples in Java and enhance your problem-solving and architectural skills.

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Course Overview

Being good at problem-solving is one thing but to take your career to the next level, one must know how complex software projects are architected. Software design patterns provide templates and tricks used to design and solve recurring software problems and tasks. Applying time-tested patterns result in extensible, maintainable and flexible high-quality code, exhibiting superior craftsmanship of a software engineer. Being well-versed in knowledge of design patterns allows one to spot brittle and immature c...Show More

Being good at problem-solving is one thing but to take your career to the next level, one must know how complex software project...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Java

Software Engineering

Software Design Patterns

Object Oriented Design

Course Content

Start

2 Lessons

Get familiar with design patterns to enhance flexibility, modularity, and coding practices.

Introduction

Types of Design Patterns

Creational Patterns

5 Lessons

Unpack the core of essential creational design patterns like Builder, Singleton, Prototype, Factory Method, and Abstract Factory.

Builder Pattern

Singleton Pattern

Prototype Pattern

Factory Method Pattern

Abstract Factory Pattern

Structural Patterns

7 Lessons

Work your way through structural patterns improving software design flexibility and efficiency.

Behavioral Patterns

11 Lessons

Grasp the fundamentals of different behavioral patterns, enhancing flexibility and decoupling in software design.

Chain of Responsibility Pattern

The End

2 Lessons

Take a closer look at key design patterns and their practical application for maintainable code.

Summary

Epilogue

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