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Design Patterns in Java

4 courses
12 hours
Skill IQ

Design patterns provide developers with templates on how to solve software development problems without reinventing the wheel every time. For Java developers, understanding design patterns and when to apply them is a cornerstone skill. When mastered, this skill becomes an amazing productivity multiplier. This path covers the most commonly used design patterns in Java.

Courses in this path

Creational

In this section, you’ll learn about the most common creational design patterns. The coverage deliberately ignores the corner cases for the benefit of the patterns that you will most likely use or encounter in your daily work.

Design Patterns in Java: Creational

by Bryan Hansen
1h 54m
(763)

Structural

The structural patterns take you to the next level. This section expands the number of patterns you already know. As in the previous section, the approach still focuses on the most frequently used patterns.

Design Patterns in Java: Structural

by Bryan Hansen
2h 42m
(399)

Implementing Design Patterns Using Java 8 Lambda

by Jose Paumard
3h 8m
(87)

Behavioral

The coverage of the behavioral patterns closes out this path by exposing you to the most relevant behavioral design patterns.

Design Patterns in Java: Behavioral

by Bryan Hansen
4h 1m
(204)

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What you will learn

Creational design patterns

Singleton Pattern
Builder Pattern
Prototype Pattern
Factory Method Pattern
Abstract Factory Pattern

Structural design patterns

Adapter Pattern
Bridge Pattern
Composite Pattern
Decorator Pattern
Facade Pattern
Flyweight Pattern
Proxy Pattern

Behavioral design patterns

Chain of Responsibility Pattern
Command Pattern
Interpreter Pattern
Iterator Pattern
Mediator Pattern
Memento Pattern
Observer Pattern
State Pattern
Strategy Pattern
Template Method Pattern
Visitor Pattern

Experience

Core Java Skills

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Bryan Hansen

Bryan is a Director at Software Technology Group, a consulting company based out of Salt Lake City, and has authored and taught numerous courses in Java. Over the years, Bryan has taught courses on Java Certifications, JPA, Hibernate, Spring, Spring MVC, Spring JDBC, Maven, RESTful Services, Selenium, Automated Testing, CAS, and various security topics.

Jose Paumard

Passionate about programming computers for over 20 years, Jose made his debut in assembler and C, C for SIMD parallel machines before adopting Java as an object-oriented language, indispensable to most major modern applications. He brings his expertise and capacity for analysis and synthesis to many projects, mainly in the lower layers, close to the data, but also on complex UI design, or in the browser. PhD in applied maths and computer science, assistant professor in Paris North University for... more

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