OO - Intermed

Polymorphism Strong understanding of polymorphism:

• understand downcasting and upcasting, and when to use them advisedly
• deep understanding of overriding (with class members, using any access specifier...)
• identify constructor invocation sequence in a complex class hierarchy
• know what late (or dynamic) binding is, and how it works
• describe what field hiding is

Design Principles

Know and understand the following basic OO design principles:

• Liskov Substitution Principle
• High Cohesion - Low Coupling
• Open/Closed Principle
• Composite Reuse Principle
• Acyclic Dependencies Principle

Be able to recognize cases where they are respected or not, and recognize a principle from a definition.

Design Patterns

Know and understand the following Design Patterns:

• Singleton
• Factory
• Template Method
• Observer
• Decorator
• Proxy
• Facade
• Composite

Know their intent, a way to implement them in Java.
Be able to recognize them from a definition or from a code example.

OO Concepts Understand the following concepts:

• encapsulation
• responsibility-driven design
• immutability
• static vs regular method/attribute
• this and super meaning/usage
• multiple inheritance (and related problems, like common ancestor constructed twice)
• interface
• abstract class and method