Programming Foundations: Object-Oriented Design

Course details

All good software starts with a great design. Object-oriented design helps developers plan applications before they write a single line of code, and break down ideas into reusable and maintainable components. This course focuses on the foundational concepts, teaching them in a fun, interactive way to help you quickly develop your skills. Tag team Olivia and Barron Stone introduce you to the concepts and terms—objects, classes, abstraction, inheritance, and more—that you need to get started. They then show how to take the requirements for an app, identify use cases, and map out classes using Universal Modeling Language (UML). The final design can then be translated into code using one of the many popular object-oriented programming languages, such as Java, C#, Ruby, or Python.

Learning objectives
Object-oriented basics: objects, classes, and more
Encapsulation
Inheritance
Defining requirements
Identifying use cases, actors, and scenarios
Domain modeling
Identifying class responsibilities and relationships
Creating class diagrams
Using abstract classes
Working with inheritance
Developing software with object-oriented design principles

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Learn object-oriented design principles
02 - What you should know

1. Object-Oriented Fundamentals

03 - Object-oriented thinking
04 - Objects
05 - Classes
06 - Abstraction
07 - Encapsulation
08 - Inheritance
09 - Polymorphism
10 - Analysis, design, and programming
11 - Unified modeling language (UML)

2. Requirements

12 - Defining requirements
13 - FURPS+ requirements
14 - Challenge - Jukebox requirements
15 - Solution - Jukebox requirements

3. Use Cases and User Stories

16 - Use cases
17 - Identifying the actors
18 - Identifying the scenarios
19 - Diagramming use cases
20 - User stories
21 - Challenge - Jukebox use cases
22 - Solution - Jukebox use cases

4. Domain Modeling

23 - Identifying the objects
24 - Identifying class relationships
25 - Identifying class responsibilities
26 - CRC cards
27 - Challenge - Jukebox conceptual model
28 - Solution - Jukebox conceptual model

5. Class Diagrams

29 - Creating class diagrams - Attributes
30 - Creating class diagrams - Behaviors
31 - Converting class diagrams into code
32 - Instantiating classes
33 - Class with multiple constructors
34 - Static attributes and methods
35 - Challenge - Jukebox class diagrams
36 - Solution - Jukebox class diagrams

6. Inheritance and Composition

37 - Identifying inheritance situations
38 - Using inheritance
39 - Abstract and concrete classes
40 - Interfaces
41 - Aggregation
42 - Composition
43 - Challenge - Jukebox class relationships
44 - Solution - Jukebox class relationships

Programming Foundations: Object-Oriented Design

Authors

Barron Stone

Olivia Chiu Stone

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Skills covered