OOP is a mindset and a process. This course leads you towards understanding its power.

Course curriculum

Lesson 1 - Introduction

Lesson 2 - Establishing Crucial Metaphors

Lesson 3 - Application Lifecycle and Object Orientation

Lesson 4 - Big Upfront Design: Object Oriented Analysis and Design

Lesson 5 - Agile Methodology

Lesson 6 - The Process can Affect the Design

Lesson 7 - Abstracting the Real World into a Domain Model

Lesson 8 - Establishing Roles and Delegating Responsibilities to Objects

Lesson 9 - Contracts, Interfaces and Collaborations

Lesson 10 - Collaborations and Object Role Stereotypes

Lesson 11 - Collaborations: Conditions of Use and After Effect Guarantees

Lesson 12 - Domain vs Application Specific Objects

Lesson 13 - Components as Neighborhoods of Objects

Lesson 14 - Architectural Layers of Responsibility using Objects

Lesson 15 - Designing Objects and Interactions Guided By Principles and Patterns

Lesson 16 - Why Encapsulation?

Lesson 17 - Why Implementation Inheritance?

Lesson 18 - Why Interface Inheritance?

Lesson 19 - Why Polymorphism?

Lesson 20 - Understanding Relationships: Coupling and Dependency

Lesson 21 - Understanding Relationships: Inversion of Control and Dependency Injection

Lesson 22 - Understanding Relationships: Aggregation

Lesson 23 - Understanding Relationships: Composition

Lesson 24 - Understanding the Agile Analysis and Design Process using Visual Studio Team Services

Lesson 25 - Where to Go From Here