University of Alberta
Software Design and Architecture Specialization
University of Alberta

Software Design and Architecture Specialization

Mindful Strategies for Quality Software. Think like an expert architect and create quality software using design patterns and principles.

Kenny Wong

Instructor: Kenny Wong

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Specialization - 4 course series

Object-Oriented Design

Course 117 hours4.7 (2,347 ratings)

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Category: Object Oriented Design
Category: Unified Modeling Language
Category: Software Design
Category: Java
Category: Object Oriented Programming (OOP)
Category: Conceptual Design
Category: Maintainability
Category: Technical Design
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Programming Principles
Category: Android Development

Design Patterns

Course 215 hours4.7 (1,341 ratings)

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Skills you'll gain

Category: Software Design Patterns
Category: Object Oriented Design
Category: Java
Category: Programming Principles
Category: Unified Modeling Language
Category: Maintainability
Category: Software Architecture
Category: Android Development
Category: Software Design
Category: Model View Controller
Category: Code Review
Category: Software Development

Software Architecture

Course 39 hours4.5 (908 ratings)

What you'll learn

Skills you'll gain

Category: Software Architecture
Category: Maintainability
Category: Software Design
Category: Software Development
Category: Solution Architecture
Category: Systems Architecture
Category: System Design and Implementation
Category: Unified Modeling Language
Category: Software Technical Review
Category: Software Design Patterns
Category: Software Systems
Category: Software Documentation
Category: Object Oriented Design
Category: Scalability
Category: Software Visualization

Service-Oriented Architecture

Course 49 hours4.5 (574 ratings)

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Category: Web Services
Category: Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Category: Microservices
Category: Restful API
Category: Web Applications
Category: Service Oriented Architecture
Category: JSON
Category: Java
Category: API Design
Category: Systems Architecture
Category: Software Architecture

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Kenny Wong
University of Alberta
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