Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
12 Hour(s) 27 Minute(s)
Language
English
Taught by
Dmitri Nesteruk
Certificate
- Available
- *The delivery and distribution of the certificate are subject to the policies and arrangements of the course provider.
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Course Overview
Discover the modern implementation of design patterns with С++
Course Overview
This course provides a comprehensive overview of Design Patterns in Modern C++ from a practical perspective. This course in particular covers patterns with the use of:
- The latest versions of the C++ programming language
- Use of modern programming approaches: dependency injection, use of coroutines, and more!
- Use of modern developer tools such as CLion and ReSharper C++
- Discussions of pattern variations and alternative approaches
This course provides an overview of all the Gang of Four (GoF) design patterns as outlined in their seminal book, together with modern-day variations, adjustments, discussions of intrinsic use of patterns in the language.
What are Design Patterns?
Design Patterns are reusable solutions to common programming problems. They were popularized with the 1994 book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, John Vlissides, Ralph Johnson and Richard Helm (who are commonly known as a Gang of Four, hence the GoF acronym).
The original book was written using C++ and Smalltalk as examples, but since then, design patterns have been adapted to every programming language imaginable: Swift, C#, Java, PHP and even programming languages that aren't strictly object-oriented, such as JavaScript.
The appeal of design patterns is immortal: we see them in libraries, some of them are intrinsic in programming languages, and you probably use them on a daily basis even if you don't realize they are there.
What Patterns Does This Course Cover?
This course covers all the GoF design patterns. In fact, here's the full list of what is covered:
- SOLID Design Principles: Single Responsibility Principle, Open-Closed Principle, Liskov Substitution Principle, Interface Segregation Principle and Dependency Inversion Principle
- Creational Design Patterns: Builder, Factories (Factory Method and Abstract Factory), Prototype and Singleton
- Structrural Design Patterns: Adapter, Bridge, Composite, Decorator, Façade, Flyweight and Proxy
- Behavioral Design Patterns: Chain of Responsibility, Command, Interpreter, Iterator, Mediator, Memento, Null Object, Observer, State, Strategy, Template Method and Visitor
Who Is the Course For?
This course is for C++ developers who want to see not just textbook examples of design patterns, but also the different variations and tricks that can be applied to implement design patterns in a modern way.
Presentation Style
This course is presented as a (very large) series of live demonstrations being done in JetBrains CLion. Most demos are single-file, so you can download the file attached to the lesson and run it in CLion, XCode or another IDE of your choice (or just on the command line).
This course does not use UML class diagrams; all of demos are live coding.
Course Content
- 25 section(s)
- 129 lecture(s)
- Section 1 Introduction
- Section 2 SOLID Design Principles
- Section 3 Builder
- Section 4 Factories
- Section 5 Prototype
- Section 6 Singleton
- Section 7 Adapter
- Section 8 Bridge
- Section 9 Composite
- Section 10 Decorator
- Section 11 Façade
- Section 12 Flyweight
- Section 13 Proxy
- Section 14 Chain of Responsibility
- Section 15 Command
- Section 16 Interpreter
- Section 17 Iterator
- Section 18 Mediator
- Section 19 Memento
- Section 20 Observer
- Section 21 State
- Section 22 Strategy
- Section 23 Template Method
- Section 24 Visitor
- Section 25 Course Summary
What You’ll Learn
- Recognize and apply design patterns
- Refactor existing designs to use design patterns
- Reason about applicability and usability of design patterns
- Learn how to use different aspects of Modern C++
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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SSergei Alexander Peregrina Ochoa
This course was extremely valuable, offering plenty of practical examples and exercises. The instructor is highly experienced—although at times the pace was a bit fast, replaying the videos made it easy to catch up. Before taking the course, I only knew a few design patterns, but now I understand how essential they are in object-oriented programming. A skilled OOP programmer should be able to recognize situations where design patterns can be applied and implement them effectively. Thanks to this course, my programming skills have definitely improved. I would have given it 5 stars, but the examples using the boost library are often very difficult to understand.
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PPrasad Kulkarni
Good one Dmitri, I thoroughly enjoyed this course. It's a modern take on the original GoF's design pattern which was quite based on previous version of C++98. I really feel you can comeup with something amazing like "Thinking in Modern C++", - building new applications utilizing Modern C++. Also, you can go through the various nitty gritty of modern C++ language ! I will surely enroll it !! And the last but not the least, you can also come up with a course how do you analyze a stocks based on the available data and the technology !! Waiting for your responses.
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DDevarakonda Mohit Varsha
Yes, the course covers Design Patterns in greater depth, more so than what is required from an Academic perspective. I wouldn't call this a beginner course, but really suits someone who has some working knowledge of c++. Overall it was put together really well.
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BBenedikt Murer
The course is good, but also very demanding on your C++ knowledge (from a Junior position), so you should have a good grasp on the basics. It als helps to at least have heard about the boost library as he makes extensive use out of it (i didn't tho and still got through with a lot of googleing). THe only downside is he doesn't explain a few things so you are a little bit on your own there.
