Apply real Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) and Design Patterns
Duration: 3 days | Price: € 799.00 VAT excluded
Next course February 16-17-19, 2026
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of OOP (inheritance, polymorphism, encapsulation)
Good knowledge of Delphi, PHP, C#, or JAVA (to be communicated at the time of registration)
A PC for each participant with Delphi version 7 or higher installed, or a PHP interpreter, or a Java development environment 1.5 or higher, or a recent version of the .NET Framework (or .NET Core) with the C# compiler.
Description
“This Course will change your life” – quote from a participant
In this course, appreciated by dozens of programmers in previous years, we address the most evident flaws of “classic” design and the corresponding solutions offered by SOLID principles and design patterns. The course includes numerous examples and exercises.
Contents
Introduction
What makes a system costly to manage?
Have you ever said, “We’d be better off rewriting it rather than wasting all this time”?
Symptoms of a “rotting” design
Rigidity
Fragility
Immobility
Viscosity
Limiting dependencies
Real dependencies
Artificial dependencies
Techniques to avoid throwing away the work of the coming years
The existing system: how to save what’s salvageable!
Techniques and principles to reuse what has been done so far without falling into the same mistakes
SOLID Principles
Single responsibility
Open-closed
Liskov substitution
Interface segregation
Dependency inversion
GoF Design Patterns, the most used
Why design patterns?
Who needed them?
Why did they revolutionize the world of software development?
For each pattern, the following points will be discussed:
Purpose
Motivation
Applicability
Pattern collaborations
Consequences
Implementations
Creational
Abstract Factory
Builder
Factory Method
Singleton
Structural
Adapter
Composite
Proxy (protection, remote, virtual)
Behavioral
Chain of responsibility
Command
Mediator
Observer
Strategy
Template method
