Take a step towards becoming a software craftsperson!This class offers an examination of key patterns, principles, and practices for effective object-oriented design and analysis. Learn to move through understanding problems and requirements to identification of the best possible technical solutions. Design and create code that is resilient to changes, testable, reliable, and maintainable by others. Hands-on code development problems and in-depth technical explorations provide valuable skills and experiences, building your ability to provide quality programs that result in professional solutions to real-world issues and user needs.Development tools include Java and UML.
Object-Oriented Analysis & Design Specialization
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Object-Oriented Analysis & Design Specialization
Instructor: Bruce Montgomery, PhD, PMP
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Intermediate level
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2 months at 10 hours a week
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Get in-depth knowledge of a subject
Intermediate level
Recommended experience
2 months at 10 hours a week
Flexible schedule
Earn a career credential
Share your expertise with employers
What you'll learn
Use thorough analysis techniques to identify problems and weigh solution alternatives
Identify common object-oriented design issues and solutions offered by design patterns
Develop resilient, testable, useful and useable object-based code solutions
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Skills you'll gain
- Software Architecture
- User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design
- Unit Testing
- Java
- Software Engineering
- API Design
- System Design and Implementation
- Software Design Patterns
- Software Development
- Software Design
- Model View Controller
- Software Testing
- Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
- Object Oriented Design
- Systems Analysis
- Test Driven Development (TDD)
- Databases
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Specialization - 3 course series
What you'll learn
Apply industry-standard languages such as Java to object-oriented software designs.
Design object-oriented solutions with structural, behavioral, and composite graphical UML diagrams
Design test cases appropriate to object-oriented applications using JUnit.
Skills you'll gain
Category: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Category: Object Oriented Design
Category: JUnit
Category: Java
Category: Test Driven Development (TDD)
Category: Unit Testing
Category: Java Programming
Category: Unified Modeling Language
Category: Software Engineering
Category: Software Testing
Category: Software Design
Category: Software Design Patterns
Category: Systems Analysis
Category: Conceptual Design
What you'll learn
Recognize design challenges in creating maintainable object-oriented systems
Apply appropriate standard design patterns to solve typical object-oriented design issues
Understand the principles behind the patterns applied to solve object-oriented development problems
Skills you'll gain
Category: Software Design Patterns
Category: Object Oriented Design
Category: Model View Controller
Category: Java
Category: Software Engineering
Category: Unified Modeling Language
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Conceptual Design
Category: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Category: JUnit
Category: Java Programming
Category: Software Design
What you'll learn
Consider practices and philosophies of creating resilient and responsive software designs
Apply practices for increasing object-oriented code quality and maintainability
Design architectures to effectively integrate object-oriented and other system components
Skills you'll gain
Category: Object Oriented Design
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Software Design Patterns
Category: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Category: Software Engineering
Category: Artificial Intelligence
Category: Databases
Category: System Design and Implementation
Category: Software Development
Category: Software Design
Category: API Design
Category: User Interface and User Experience (UI/UX) Design
Category: Java Programming
Category: Unified Modeling Language
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Frequently asked questions
This specialization will take about 3 months to complete.
Experience in Java programming is recommended. Some object-oriented language experience is helpful, the class uses Java at an intermediate level.
It is recommended to complete the courses in this Specialization sequentially.
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