
Explore solid principles with real-world code examples, including single responsibility principle, open closed principle, Liskov substitution principle, interface segregation principle, and dependency inversion principle.
Explore the solid principles—single responsibility, open-closed principle, Liskov substitution principle, interface segregation principle, and dependency inversion principle—and learn how they make code easier to understand, maintain, and reuse.
Explain why SOLID principle is essential for software development, showing how tight coupling makes changes risky and bug-prone, and how adhering to SOLID improves the end user experience.
Explore the benefits of the SOLID principle, including maintainability, scalability, testability, reusability, and agility, to keep code easy to understand, modify, test, and evolve.
Explore the single responsibility principle, which requires a class to have one job and one reason to change. Avoid combining responsibilities, like calculation and database operations, in a single class.
See why the single responsibility principle matters: avoid changing a multi-purpose class to prevent bugs, and split code into separate classes to ease debugging and locate the bug.
Explore real world examples that show the single responsibility principle in action, with developers, designers, testers, and product managers handling separate tasks.
Apply the single responsibility principle with a real-world code example of a book and invoice system; separate calculating total, printing the invoice, and saving the invoice to a file.
Learn how the open-closed principle keeps existing code intact while enabling new features through extension, using mobile phone basics and the app store as practical examples.
Understand why the open-closed principle guides you to add new features without touching proven production code, reducing bugs and preserving existing functionality.
Learn how the open closed principle keeps basic functionality closed for modification while allowing extension through new features, illustrated by a tourist package and a mixer grinder extension tool.
Demonstrate the open-closed principle with an area calculator that uses a shape interface to compute areas for rectangles and circles, avoiding modification and enabling extension.
Explore the Liskov substitution principle and how a child class should replace its parent, preserving inherited properties and behaviors. Learn how incomplete implementations can break Liskov substitution principle in inheritance.
Explain the Liskov substitution principle, where a subclass can replace its parent and must implement all parent features; otherwise, inherited methods may fail and cause bugs in code.
Explore the Liskov substitution principle with real-world examples: a coffee-making robo and its water-only son reveal proper and broken substitutions, while adding ball kick to sportsman breaks substitution for runner.
Explore the Liskov substitution principle through a bird example: duck can fly via a flying-bird superclass, ostrich cannot, leading to two separate superclasses for compliant code.
Explains the Liskov substitution principle, showing that a child class should replace its parent when using inheritance, and that missing implementations can break the principle.
Understand the Liskov substitution principle, which states a subclass must replace its parent and provide all parent functionality. Avoid bugs when using inheritance.
Explore the Interface Segregation Principle and the Liskov Substitution Principle through real-world examples, such as a coffee-making robo and a water-only mini robo, highlighting proper class responsibilities.
Demonstrate the Liskov substitution principle using a bird hierarchy, splitting flight into a flying bird superclass so ducks can fly while ostriches cannot, ensuring proper eat and sleep behavior.
Explore the dependency inversion principle, a core solid concept where high-level modules depend on abstractions, not on low-level implementations, using car and ui examples to hide engine and database details.
Learn why dependency inversion decouples high-level UI from low-level modules like networking or databases by hiding details behind an abstraction layer, making code more flexible, reusable, maintainable, and testable.
Demonstrate the dependency inversion principle with real-world examples like power sockets and remote controls, showing how high-level modules stay decoupled from low-level details and maintenance remains unaffected.
Explore dependency inversion by refactoring a high-level employee module to depend on a storage interface, enabling easy swapping of file systems, databases, or NoSQL backends.
Master solid principles through real-world examples and live coding, covering single responsibility, open-closed principle, Liskov substitution principle, interface segregation principle, and dependency inversion principle.
Explore the solid principle with real world and live coding example to illustrate its application.
It's essential to understand the foundational ideas behind SOLID. Writing good code will come naturally to you once you have a solid foundation. There are many free YouTube videos on SOLID, but they frequently lack coherence and don't use the right analogies or code examples. With carefully chosen analogies and code snippets that will help the concepts stick, this course aims to give a thorough overview of SOLID principles. The points are emphasized using concrete examples from everyday life and visual representations.
You will learn how to design clean and maintainable software systems using SOLID principles. You will gain a deeper understanding of software architecture by learning SOLID principles.
Over four decades of academic research and industry experience have distilled SOLID principles. SOLID principles provide universal, time-proven tools for delivering high-quality software.
The acronym SOLID stands for five principles:
Single Responsibility Principle
Open Closed Principle
Liskov Substitution Principle
Interface Segregation Principle
Dependency Inversion Principle
Throughout this course, you will gain an in-depth understanding of the SOLID principles and their significance. You will come to realize how implementing these principles can enhance the flexibility, extensibility, and readability of your code. Ultimately, you will experience firsthand the sheer pleasure of working with SOLID code.