Educative - Grokking the Low Level Design Interview Using OOD Principles

Takeaway Skills

• An understanding of the essential object-oriented concepts like design principles and patterns to ace the OOD interview
• Familiarity with the scope of each interview problem by accurately defining the requirements and presenting its solution
• Hands-on experience to create sequence and activity diagrams for the interview problems
• The ability to efficiently breakdown an interview design problem into multiple parts using a bottom-up approach
• Learn to design class, use case, sequence and activity diagrams of the interview problems
• Explore the implementation code of each designed problem using multiple programming languages (Java, C++, C#, Python, and JavaScript)

Course Overview

With hundreds of potential problems to design, preparing for the object-oriented design (OOD) interview can feel like a daunting task. However, with a strategic approach, OOD interview prep doesn’t have to take more than a few weeks.

In this course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of object-oriented design with an extensive set of real-world problems to help you prepare for the OOD part of a typical software engineering interview process at major tech companies like Apple, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon.

By the end of this course, you will get an understanding of the essential object-oriented concepts like design principles and patterns to ace the OOD interview. You will develop the ability to efficiently breakdown an interview design problem into multiple parts using a bottom-up approach. You will be familiar with the scope of each interview problem by accurately defining the requirements and presenting its solution using class, use case, sequence, and activity diagrams.

Course Content

1. Introduction
2. Cornerstones of Object-oriented Programming
3. Object-oriented Design
4. Object-oriented Design Principles
5. Design Patterns
6. Real-world Design Problems
7. Designing a Parking Lot
8. Designing an Elevator System
9. Designing a Library Management System
10. Designing the Amazon Locker Service
11. Designing a Vending Machine
12. Designing an Online Blackjack Game
13. Designing a Meeting Scheduler
14. Designing a Movie Ticket Booking System
15. Designing a Car Rental System
16. Designing ATM
17. Designing a Chess Game
18. Designing a Hotel Management System
19. Designing the Amazon Online Shopping System
20. Designing Stack Overflow
21. Designing a Restaurant Management System
22. Designing Facebook
23. Designing an Online Stock Brokerage System
24. Designing a Jigsaw Puzzle
25. Designing an Airline Management System
26. Designing Cricinfo
27. Designing LinkedIn
28. Wrapping Up

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