Dealing with Complexity

•  Functional Decomposition
•  Requirements and Inevitable Change
•  Coupling and Cohesion
•  Unwanted Side Effects
•  Perspecives
  •  Conceptual
  •  Specification
  •  Implementation
•  Responsibilities

The Object-Oriented Paradigm

•  Objects and Responsibilities
•  Single Responsibility Principle (SRP)
•  Interfaces and Abstract Classes
•  Encapsulation and Polymorphism
•  Liskov Substitution Principle (LSP)
  •  Object Construction and Destruction
  •  Constructors and Field Initialization in .NET
  •  Destructors and the Finalize Method
  •  .NET Dispose Pattern
•  Classes vs. Structs in .NET

Overview of UML

•  Introduction
•  Class Diagrams
•  Sequence Diagrams

Introduction to Design Patterns

•  Origin of Design Patterns
•  “Gang of Four” Patterns
•  Key Features of Patterns
•  Why Study Design Patterns?
•  Design Strategies

Structural Patterns (Part I)

•  Facade Pattern
•  Adapter Pattern
•  Facade vs. Adapter

Testability

•  Writing Unit Tests
•  Test-Driven Development (TDD)
•  Dependencies
•  Extracting Interfaces
•  Mock Object Pattern

Behavioral Patterns (Part I)

•  Dealing with Change
•  Encapsulating Variations
•  Strategy Pattern
•  Open-Closed Principle (OCP)
•  Template Method Pattern

Structural Patterns (Part II)

•  Inheritance vs. Composition
•  Bridge Pattern
•  Decorator Pattern
•  Proxy Pattern

Behavioral Patterns (Part II)

•  Observer Pattern
•  .NET Events
•  Command Pattern

Creational Patterns

•  Motivation
•  Dependency Injection
•  Singleton Pattern
  •  Thread Safety
  •  .NET Implementation
•  Object Pool Pattern
•  Factory Method Pattern
•  Abstract Factory Pattern

Model-View-Controller (MVC)

•  Model-View-Presenter (MVP)
•  Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM)
•  WPF and ASP.NET MVC

Architectural Patterns and Styles

•  Component-Based Architecture
•  .NET Assemblies and Versioning
•  N-Tier Architecure
•  Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Designing with Patterns

•  Summary of Design Principles
•  Commonality and Variability
•  Dependency Inversion Principle (DIP)
•  Hybrid and Composite Patterns
•  Design Patterns and Agile Practices