Design Patterns in C++

Course Number:  639-TES
Recommended Duration:  5 days

Course Overview
The course covers the 23 design patterns in the book "Design Patterns" (by Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides), and 3 others added by the instructor.

Objectives
You will learn to write programs that are extensible, flexible, maintainable, modular, portable, reusable, and understandable.

Prerequisites
Complete an introductory course in C++ and have one year experience programming in C++.  Also, you must be able to do the following in C++:

• define a class
• declare/define/invoke a constructor, a copy constructor, a destructor, operator=0, a member function, a const member function, a static member function, a virtual member function, and a pure virtual member function.
• define a class to be publicly derived from another class
• write a member initialization list
• define/use a class template
• declare/define/invoke a function template and a member function template

Topics

• Introduction
• Object-Oriented Guidelines
• What type are you?
• Clone
• Disable Copy/Assignment
• Memento
• Template Method
• Chain of Responsibility
• Prototype
• Factory Method and Factory Class
• Abstract Factory (Class)
• Flyweight
• Singleton
• Mediator
• Proxy
• Facade
• Adapter
• Iterator
• All of Me
• Observer
• Strategy
• State
• Bridge
• Decorator
• Composite
• Builder
• Interpreter
• Visitor
• Null Object
• Command
• Conclusion