Topics

• Overview of abstraction, models, analysis, "object-oriented" and design
• How can one problem have more than one solution and which one is best?
• Understanding systems, actors and use case
• Can a use case show conditional branching, looping/repetition?
• Understanding encapsulation
• Understanding the why's and how's of grouping together pieces of data and code
• All about information hiding
• Understanding objects and their relationship to physical and non-physical things
• Learning about operations
• Understanding collaboration
• Understanding messages and responses and their relationship to objects
• Constructing a message flow diagram
• Understanding attributes and how operations affect them
• Understanding relationships between objects
• Object links and how operations affect links
• Lifetime of links and navigability
• Composition vs. links
• Applying abstraction to similar objects with Classes
• Understanding instances
• Applying abstraction to similar links with Association
• Using links in a particular order with multiplicity
• Learning about reflexive association
• Understanding Inheritance
• How to apply abstraction to similar classes
• Overview of superclasses and subclasses
• Understanding Inheritance and Venn diagrams
• How inheritance affects objects
• Learning about substitutability
• Understanding concrete and abstract Classes
• About Multiple Inheritance and resolving ambiguity
• Learning two aspects of operations: Interface and implementation
• Using polymorphism to write flexible code
• Writing code without polymorphism
• Tips on finding classes
• The what's, why's and how's of Sequence Diagrams
• Understanding reuse
• Overview of Case Tools
• How to write portable software
• Learning about persistence
• Storing objects in a relational database
• Class Libraries
• Improving the performance of an implementation

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