Lynda.com – Foundations of Programming: Object-Oriented Design
Most modern programming languages, such as Java, C#, Ruby, and Python, are object-oriented
languages, which help group individual bits of code into a complex and coherent application.
However, object-orientation itself is not a language; it’s simply a set of ideas and
concepts.Let Simon Allardice introduce you to the terms—words like abstraction, inheritance,
polymorphism, subclass—and guide you through defining your requirements and identifying use
cases for your program. The course also covers creating conceptual models of your program with
design patterns, class and sequence diagrams, and unified modeling language (UML) tools, and then
shows how to convert the diagrams into code.
•Why use object-oriented design (OOD)?
•Pinpointing use cases, actors, and scenarios
•Identifying class responsibilities and relationships
•Creating class diagrams
•Using abstract classes
•Working with inheritance
•Creating advanced UML diagrams
•Understanding object-oriented design principles