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.

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 code from miles away. The course goes to great lengths to lay bare the esoteric concepts of various design patterns before the reader and is replete with real-world examples and sample code.
The readership for this course is expected to be familiar with some object orientated language. The course examples and snippets are written in the Java language but folks with experience in other OOP languages should easily be able to follow the discussion and code intent.

Software Design Patterns: Best Practices for Software Developers

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As we reach the end of the course, I'd like to share my experience working with patterns as a veteran of the Silicon Valley. First, you'll not always find patterns implemented as the text-book versions you just read. They'll usually deviate a little here or there, but knowing the text-book version would let you immediately recognize the pattern at hand and improve your understanding of the code and your ability to navigate and make changes to it.
The frequency with which you see patterns applied will depend on what company or product you work for. If you are working in an off-shore small scale wordpress-website-building sweat shop, chances are slim you'll work on any of the patterns. The cost benefits are just not there. If you are working on a website of ten pages and your customer will pay you $2000 then neither you nor your boss would be inclined to spend the effort and energy in going the extra mile and using nifty patterns in code. However, for a project of $200,000 you better use design patterns where applicable or your customer will not be happy when change requirements start to cost him a fortune because you need to cut and rip apart the code and start all over again.

If you work for a company that produces a framework or library for consumption by other developers then chances are you'll be working with and applying patterns all over the place. The further up in the food chain you work and the more uncertainty and abstraction you deal with, the more likely you are to use design patterns. However, at the very least, you'll find yourself working with creational design patterns at any company as any decent sized project will have you <code class="mthd">new()</code> up objects.

The foremost benefit you should have from this course is to learn the design pattern vocabulary. Being cognizant of what a builder pattern or a factory method pattern refers to in a dev meeting exudes maturity and depth in a software engineer. Furthermore, it makes communication of complex designs amongst developers easy, leveraging the shared vocabulary.
Last but not the least, I would like to caution to not get overboard with design patterns and apply them for the sake of applying design patterns. They are a means to an end, not the end in themselves. The end being maintainable, extensible and flexible code. Keep it simple and apply patterns when and where it makes sense.

Wishing you all the best in your tech future.
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/c-h-afzal-bb083a167/" target="_blank">C. H. Afzal.</a> 
21st Sept, 2018 
taught with passion and crafted with ❤️in Santa Clara, U.S.A.

 
 
<h2>Credits</h2>
Every great product is a result of team-effort and so is this course. Our team members include:

<ul>

<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahsan-khalil-54914855/" target="_blank">Ahsan Khalil</a> (Illustrations and graphic design)</li>

<li>Educative's Proofreading Ninjas</li>
</ul> 

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As we reach the end of the course, I'd like to share my experience working with patterns as a veteran of the Silicon Valley. First, you'll not always find patterns implemented as the text-book versions you just read. They'll usually deviate a little here or there, but knowing the text-book version would let you immediately recognize the pattern at hand and improve your understanding of the code and your ability to navigate and make changes to it.
The frequency with which you see patterns applied will depend on what company or product you work for. If you are working in an off-shore small scale wordpress-website-building sweat shop, chances are slim you'll work on any of the patterns. The cost benefits are just not there. If you are working on a website of ten pages and your customer will pay you $2000 then neither you nor your boss would be inclined to spend the effort and energy in going the extra mile and using nifty patterns in code. However, for a project of $200,000 you better use design patterns where applicable or your customer will not be happy when change requirements start to cost him a fortune because you need to cut and rip apart the code and start all over again.

If you work for a company that produces a framework or library for consumption by other developers then chances are you'll be working with and applying patterns all over the place. The further up in the food chain you work and the more uncertainty and abstraction you deal with, the more likely you are to use design patterns. However, at the very least, you'll find yourself working with creational design patterns at any company as any decent sized project will have you <code>new()</code> up objects.

The foremost benefit you should have from this course is to learn the design pattern vocabulary. Being cognizant of what a builder pattern or a factory method pattern refers to in a dev meeting exudes maturity and depth in a software engineer. Furthermore, it makes communication of complex designs amongst developers easy, leveraging the shared vocabulary.
Last but not the least, I would like to caution to not get overboard with design patterns and apply them for the sake of applying design patterns. They are a means to an end, not the end in themselves. The end being maintainable, extensible and flexible code. Keep it simple and apply patterns when and where it makes sense.

Wishing you all the best in your tech future.
<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/c-h-afzal-bb083a167/" target="_blank">C. H. Afzal.</a> 
21st Sept, 2018 
taught with passion and crafted with ❤️in Santa Clara, U.S.A.

 
 
<h2>Credits</h2>
Every great product is a result of team-effort and so is this course. Our team members include:

<ul>

<li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahsan-khalil-54914855/" target="_blank">Ahsan Khalil</a> (Illustrations and graphic design)</li>

<li>Educative's Proofreading Ninjas</li>
</ul> 

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Start

Creational Patterns

Structural Patterns

Behavioral Patterns

The End

Epilogue