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About the Course

This course extends object-oriented analysis and design by incorporating design patterns to create interactive applications. Through a survey of established design patterns, you will gain a foundation for more complex software applications. Finally, you will identify problematic software designs by referencing a catalog of code smells. You will be challenged in the Capstone Project to redesign an existing Java-based Android application to implement a combination of design patterns. You will also critique a given Java codebase for code smells. After completing this course, you will be able to: • Demonstrate how to use design patterns to address user interface design issues. • Identify the most suitable design pattern to address a given application design problem. • Apply design principles (e.g., open-closed, dependency inversion, least knowledge). • Critique code by identifying and refactoring anti-patterns. • Apply the model-view-controller architectural pattern....

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ZP

Sep 18, 2019

I have never had a chance to study CS at the university so I am always looking for ways to improve my knowledge - to keep up with fellow programmers. And this course met my requirements perfectly. :)

RJ

Mar 18, 2022

The course and the instructor was so good. The curriculum was well designed and of appropriate length. I really enjoyed and learnt skills that I would be able to apply while developing real software

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By Евгений Ш

Mar 30, 2024

The course is ridiculously bad and mostly serves as a reference to OOP patterns from GoF. It is very abstract, the examples of using the patterns are insufficient. Moreover, assignments for using patterns are horrible and really harmful: they force you to apply some of GoF patterns without real necessity. This just adds additional layers of abstraction to your code (thus, making it more complicated) without any benefits. Also, there are no control of your knowledge or understanding. Instead of some objective control, the assignments are reviewed by different learners, and you do not know: either your assignment is correct or a reviewer does not understand the material in the same way as you or the reviewer just marked your assignment as correct without reviewing. The suggestion: do not buy the course and just read "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software". It is much more useful.

By Víctor D

Aug 1, 2023

The contents are ok, but making the implementation depend in an environment as complex as Android makes that most of the effort is on making Android Studio behave, not on thinking about the design. Avoid if you are not familiar with or interested in Android development.

By Paul O

Oct 25, 2023

Appears to be written by someone hired as a java expert who is not a java expert

By Ludovica S

Mar 26, 2021

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