SOLID Design in Java

Course Objectives

This “skills-centric” course is about 50% hands-on lab and 50% lecture, designed to train attendees in advanced development skills, coupling the most current, effective techniques with the soundest industry practices. Students will leave this course armed with the required skills to improve their Java applications using sound coding techniques and best practices.  

Using Java to demonstrate with extensive hands-on labs, this course teaches:

• Design Goals - What are we trying to accomplish?
• Design Smells - How to identify and objectively articulate bad design choices.
• Test Driven Development and minimalistic design and implementation - Avoid overdesign and facilitate design changes.
• Process - What are the best ways to proceed with software development and measure progress.
• Single Responsibility Principle - Only one reason to change
• Open/Close Principle - Open for business, closed for modification
• Liskov's Substitution Principle - a subtype can do more and require less
• Interface Segregation Principle - interfaces are for clients
• Dependency Inversion Principle - don't call us, we'll call you!

Need different skills or topics?  If your team requires different topics or tools, additional skills or custom approach, this course may be further adjusted to accommodate.  We offer additional Java, JEE and Java for Web application development, design, testing, services, application security and other related topics that may be blended with this course for a track that best suits your needs. Our team will collaborate with you to understand your needs and will target the course to focus on your specific learning objectives and goals.

Course Prerequisites

 This is an introductory and beyond level Java programming course. Attendees should have real-world hands-on Java development experience prior to attending.

Please see the Related Courses tab for specific Pre-Requisite courses, Related Courses that offer similar skills or topics, and next-step Learning Path recommendations.

Course Agenda

Please note that this list of topics is based on our standard course offering, evolved from typical industry uses and trends. We’ll work with you to tune this course and level of coverage to target the skills you need most

Introduction

• Design
• Design Goals
• Process - Good, Bad, Ugly
• Design Smells
• Minimalistic Design and Test Driven Development
• The Company Class
• The Employee Class

Let's Get S.O.L.I.D.

• Single Responsibility Principle
• SRP Lab
• Open/Close Principle
• OCP Lab
• OCP Lab - Refactoring Employee
• OCP - Refactoring Company
• Liskov's Substitution Principle
• LSP Lab
• Interface Segregation Principle
• Interface Segregation Lab
• Dependency Inversion Principle
• DIP Lab

Course Materials

Student Materials: Each participant will receive a Student Guide with course notes, code samples, software tutorials, step-by-step written lab instructions, diagrams and related reference materials and resource links. Students will also receive the project files (or code, if applicable) and solutions required for the hands-on work.

Setup Made Simple! Our dedicated tech team will work with you to ensure your student machines and learning environment is setup, tested and ready to go well in advance of the course delivery date, ensuring a smooth start to class and seamless hands-on experience for your students. We offer several flexible student machine setup options including guided manual set up for simple installation directly on student machines, or cloud based / remote hosted lab solutions where students can log in to a complete separate lab environment minus any installations, or we can supply complete turn-key, pre-loaded equipment to bring ready-to-go student machines to your students or in-person facility.  Please inquire for details.