Object-oriented Coding Best Practices

Course details

To outline the best practices for defining and using classes, and determining how best to use inheritance or its alternatives

• Defining classes
• recognize whether a given class complies with best practice guidelines for abstraction and encapsulation.
• Constructors and destructors
• recognize best practices for using constructors and destructors, and creating objects.
• Advanced classes
• identify steps to make a class immutable and recognize examples of uses for static classes.
• Building classes
• determine appropriate class designs for a given scenario.
• Rules for good inheritance
• recognize how best to implement inheritance.
• Determining suitable class relationships
• assess whether appropriate class relationships have been used in given scenarios, and determine more suitable ones.
• Replacing inheritance
• identify a suitable method for defining relationships between classes in a given scenario.