General info

Theory to practice ratio: 100% practice
Duration: 3 days

Goal

Everyone needs a refresh or a reminder of good coding practices. This training offers a unique take by:

• Being 100% hands-on.
• Showing how to refactor from bad to good code.
• Presenting design patterns in a modern take. They are more than 20 years old by now.
• Including proper behaviors with DI containers and ORM frameworks.

Program

1. SOLID is the basis for understanding design patterns SOLID principles are the key to understanding design patterns.
2. Design patterns as recipes to testable code
   1. Factory and Abstract Factory design patterns - basic, but still misunderstood and misused pattern.
   2. Builder design pattern - how it is different from a state machine and how beneficial it is in tests.
   3. Strategy design pattern - separating object responsibilities leads to smaller and cleaner classes.
   4. Object pool - understanding the most basic patterns for IO communication.
   5. State Machine design pattern - rethinking code habits with OOP principles leads to readable and trivial to test code
   6. Rules design pattern - moving from nested ifs to clean, readable and testable code.
   7. Chain of responsibility design pattern - key pattern to understand most UI frameworks.
   8. Singleton design pattern - refreshed, and proper usage of one of the most common design patterns. We also measure different implementations with Benchmark.net to remove any performance myths.
   9. Observable design pattern - a very powerful pattern, especially when used with reactive programming and Reactive Extensions.
3. Knowing Your toolset:
   1. DI containers
      1. Understanding how a DI container works.
      2. Defining container responsibilities.
      3. How to organize registrations.
      4. Proper lifecycle management.
   2. Data modeling and ORM
      1. Understanding how an ORM framework works.
      2. Modeling hierarchies.
      3. Modeling value and refernce types.
      4. Auditing objects with listners.

Materials

After the training all attendees get a before and after zip package with all excercises done during the workshop.