The Object-Oriented (OO) approach is now the established main stream approach for most application domains. Making the transition to OO development from a procedural background is challenging, because:

- It involves a different way of thinking about design, i.e. you have to make the infamous “paradigm shift”.

- It is easy to lapse into a procedural style when using main stream OO languages.

- Learning a complex new technology and set of API’s does not necessarily allow you to focus on the key principles and concepts.

This course will teach you OO concepts and fundamental design practices as well as Java and its idioms, including important new features of Java 1.5.

The course is lab based, with every new concept backed up by a comprehensive set of exercises that allow you to validate your understanding of the material. Participants will work in pairs.

A detailed syllabus is available for this course.

This course is part of our Design Service roadmap.

At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Effectively utilise fundamental OO concepts and principles.
• Write Java applications.
• Know how to test your applications.
• Embark on learning about the OO design solution space (see our other course "Effective OO Design")