Applying Advanced Object Design with Patterns – authored by Craig Larman
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Craig Larman’s Workshop on the practical application of Design Patterns
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This popular, high-impact, and hands-on course on mastering advanced object-oriented design (OOD) and design patterns is aimed at architects and developers of OO systems, and is based on acclaimed industry leader Craig Larman’s extensive experience coaching and applying OOD since the mid 1980s.
Object-oriented (OO) design patterns are a critical and fundamental skill of successful OO developers to support design agility. Most modern OO systems are designed with patterns, and mastery of design patterns is considered a basic criterion of mature developers—and an absolute necessity for architects.
Various studies indicate that after initial release of a software system, at least 50% of effort and cost is spent in modification. To save money, it is skillful and economic to take a long-term view of product development and invest in skillful designs that reduce these costs.
You will leave this workshop with deeper skill to apply patterns and create quality object-oriented designs that have agility – that support reduced modification costs and increased comprehensibility, and hence support business agility.
Course Objectives
You will learn to design with patterns, apply visual modeling and the UML in an agile modeling approach, and a suite of related advanced design topics, including the design of packages.
At their worst, patterns appear like purely disparate ideas, without much cohesion, or connection to your problems. At their best, they are an elegant and practical language of design, offering a vocabulary of reusable solutions at points of complexity, instability, variation, or evolution in your systems.
This intensive workshop helps you acquire this cohesive vocabulary, and apply patterns at variation points. It provides examples and context for the most frequently used patterns, and includes a learning aid for guidance in their application. In short, we work hard and hands-on in this course. You will leave with the direct experience and confidence to actually do object design and apply patterns. Essential, high-use UML and agile modeling is taught in the context of design modeling. However, the emphasis is on object design, not on learning diagramming syntax (UML notation).
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