Object oriented programming for beginners

Target audience

Students who especially benefit from this course:

• Beginner Python developers who want to organise their code better by using OOP
• Developers that bring experience from another programming language who want to learn using OOP with Python
• Developers that inherit spaghetti code from others at work and need bring structure to it

Training contents

• Introduction OOP: Understanding the problems that are solved with OOP
• Classes and objects: Create classes, the class initializer, and instantiate objects
• UML: Visualize and communicate the class diagrams with the Unified Modeling Language
• Inheritance: Prevent duplicate code by creating subclasses
• Encapsulation: Prevent access to class information
• Dependency injection: Decouple your code by injecting dependencies
• Polymorphism: Allow your code to be extended with minimal changes to the system
• Composition: Prevent an explosion of subclasses by using composition
• Unit testing: Write Unit Tests to test the correctness of your code

What can you do after this course?

• You will organize your code better so changes in the future do not cause nightmares anymore
• You can visualize and communicate your code to your colleagues with UML, before writing a single line of code
• Your programs becomes testable by creating small and predictable code units

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