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  <h1>Principles of Software Construction <small>Objects, Design, and Concurrency</small></h1>
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  <h2>Learning Goals</h2><p><strong>After taking this course you should be able to...</strong></p>
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<li><strong>Understand key concepts of object oriented programming</strong> (object identity, dynamic dispatch/polymorphism)</li>
<li><strong>Use modern development tools to design and implement nontrivial programs</strong>
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<li>Write programs of medium complexity</li>
<li>Use standard tools expected of professional developers: IDEs, refactoring, debugging, version control, static analysis, code review</li>
<li>Write simple user interfaces using command line or visual frontends</li>
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<li><strong>Design code that is easy to understand, maintain, and reuse</strong>
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<li>Domain modeling, responsibility assignment</li>
<li>Taming complexity: Patterns, types, abstraction, and reducing coupling</li>
<li>Design for change: Information hiding, contracts, subtype polymorphism</li>
<li>Design for reuse: Small scale: Delegation, inheritance, parametric polymorphism (generics)
Immutable data structures</li>
<li>Structuring systems at different scale: methods, classes, modules, subsystems (microservices)</li>
<li><strong>Understand and apply common design patterns</strong> (technically belongs to the previous point)
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<li>Understand the idea behind design patterns</li>
<li>Evaluate when to use design patterns and apply them to solve common design problems</li>
<li>Understand common anti-patterns</li>
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<li><strong>Use and design libraries, frameworks, and APIs</strong> (design for reuse at scale)</li>
<li><strong>Program confidently with concurrency</strong>
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<li>Challenges and modern solutions and patterns</li>
<li>Basic understanding of distributed systems and RPC, client server, microservice</li>
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<li><strong>Assess functional correctness with unit tests</strong>
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<li>Competency in writing unit tests and integration tests</li>
<li>Create tests using a dedicated testing strategy (boundary condition, coverage, …)</li>
<li>Design software to be testable, good test suite design</li>
<li>Build and test automation, CI, test coverage</li>
<li>Testing robustness, integration testing</li>
<li>Ideas in unit testing: TDD, BDD, …</li>
<li>Understand the tradeoffs between formal verification and testing (and type checking and static analysis)</li>
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