Python: Advanced Design Patterns

Explore some advanced design patterns as applied to Python. This course helps you examine how these patterns work at the code level by walking through sample scripts.

Introduction

• Welcome
• What you should know before watching this course

1. Understanding Design Patterns: Review

• What is a design pattern?
• Architectural vs. design patterns
• Patterns and frameworks
• Design pattern adoption
• Python as an object-oriented programming (OOP) language
• Why use design patterns, or why not?

2. Design Best Practices

• Quality attributes and design patterns
• Domain-specific patterns
• Security patterns
• Case study: Intercepting validator
• Intercepting validator example

3. Gang of Four (GoF) Patterns, Part 1

• Facade
• Facade example
• Command
• Command example
• Interpreter
• Interpreter example
• Practitioner's perspective: Practice

4. Gang of Four (GoF) Patterns, Part 2

• Mediator
• Mediator example
• Memento
• Memento example
• State
• State example
• Template method
• Template method example
• Practitioner's perspective: Development

Conclusion

• Next steps