Design Patterns
University of Alberta via Coursera
Overview
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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.
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.
Syllabus
- Introduction to Design Patterns: Creational & Structural Patterns
- Design patterns help to solve common design issues in object-oriented software. You will learn what they are and how they can be applied. In this module you will learn the creational and structural design patterns. You will continue to learn and practice expressing designs in UML, and code some of these patterns in Java.
- Behavioural Design Patterns
- You will continue learning useful design patterns and add them to your toolbox. In this module, you will learn the behavioural patterns. This will include communicating them in UML and coding them in Java!
- Working with Design Patterns & Anti-patterns
- You will learn a design pattern that is very useful for user interfaces: model-view-controller, or MVC. Then you will learn some principles underlying the design patterns, to create software that is flexible, reusable, and maintainable. Finally, you will learn some of the symptoms of bad design, which we call code smells or antipatterns.
- Capstone Challenge
- In the previous modules, you were introduced to a variety of design patterns, and applied two of these to the example Android code base. Now, in the final module of the course, you will identify and fix specific code smells in this code base. After completing these tasks, you will be ready to complete the final exam.
Taught by
Kenny Wong
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Reviews
4.5 rating, based on 21 reviews
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AnonymousNice course for beginners. It teaches the base for start learning patterns.
Som explaniations are superficial and are not so clear and it is hard to understand I recommend take notes and read the transcription to understand better.
Something I hate are the Peer rewiew excersises because almost the 80% of them are plagarism and doesn't give a real feedback. -
AnonymousExcellent course! I have learned a lot. It is very useful for my career. Design patterns are essential for good design and good code.
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AnonymousGreat course to know a good quantity of design patterns and anti-patterns, good explanations and good practical exercises.
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Mattneri completed this course, spending 2 hours a week on it and found the course difficulty to be easy.
Content is ok for a beginner. Usually it just scratch the surface and doesn't go in great detail.
Exercises quality is quite poor. Many errors in the UML diagrams and code examples. -
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Anonymous completed this course.
This is an excellent course for the individuals who are seeking to advance career in programming because design patterns are the flavor of programming and the code smells if it does not have patterns implemented.
So I would recommend everyone to take this course. -
Stefan Karschti
1Stefan Karschti completed this course.
It's a very good course to take if you're specializing in software architecture or just formalizing your specialization. The course details the most used design patterns then follows up with assignments and quizzes. I am very satisfied having taken this course. -
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Anonymous completed this course.
Design pattern is really useful for any developer in the world .it facilitate problem's design and make avoid some code smells to be the code flexible reusable and maintainable. -
Konstantinos Efkarpidis
In my opinion this course is really good start to design patterns if you are new. Before the course i had no idea what design patterns are , but now i consider that this course covered a big variety of them. -
AnonymousVery good fundamental course, with clear explanations of design principles and patterns. This course is exactly what I was looking for long time!
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AnonymousVery good course with a lot of material and chances to apply what you learn with capstone peer reviewed assignments.
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Anonymous completed this course.
Good course even if you know the basic design patterns.
My only wish is that the course could have covered all the design patterns in the GOF pattern list which are used in day to day softwares (eg Builder pattern)
Also I think one should not enforce knowledge of android for design pattern. -
Cassiano Reinert Novais Dos Santos
Cassiano Reinert Novais Dos Santos completed this course.
Great course to a general view of Design Patterns. I could get really a good understanding.
The instructor are very direct and concise with great examples to make us understand.
I recommend it for anyone searching for an online course in Design Patterns and Software Architecture.
Thank you! -
AnonymousVery good course, well balanced between theory and practice.
I recommend it if you want to understand how to structure SW applications.
This is my second course in the Coursera SW Design and Architecture specialization, and after having completed it, I decided to continue with the next one. -
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Anonymous completed this course.
I really enjoyed this course. While I have been familiar with design patterns for several years, and actively use them in my work, this course helped me solidify my understanding, and provided new perspectives on these ideas. Very useful. -
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Not all the essential design patterns and refactoring techniques have been discussed, but it's still really good. I also liked the way the assignments were structured. -
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Anonymous completed this course.
I like this course and specialization. I have learned so much. It’s useful for apply in my job. I recommend this course and all of the course of this specialization. -
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Anonymous completed this course.
Must have for software developers. A very informative and well designed course. You'll get thorough understanding of various design patterns. -
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Anonymous completed this course.
It was good. Assignments could have been harder and more engaging. Instead they felt like trivial find and replace tasks. -
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Anonymous completed this course.
I actually liked it. It was quite simple to understand all patterns studied during this course. I would definitely recommend it -
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Anonymous completed this course.
The course combines an appreciation of the formal aspects of structuring and conducting design reviews with an exploration of the ‘softer’ skills required to ensure that reviews engage all those who need to take part and prepare them to carry out their role in a way that delivers the best possible outcomes - designs for products that better meet customer requirements and are easier and cheaper to manufacture.
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