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• Section 1 : Design Issues and Methodologies - This section discusses about various design principles and ideologies
  • Interface Segregation Principle (Wikipage 1).....Interface Segregation Principle (Wikipage 2)
  • Decomposition, Message Forwarding, and Delegation versus Inheritance in OOP Design
  • Prototype based Object Oriented design
  • Domain Object Model
  • Code Reuse

• Section 2 : Language Features - This section talks about the different features present in languages
  • Multiple Inheritance
  • Multiple inheritance and mixins
  • Closures in Ruby vs. Closures in other languages
  • Reflective Language Features vs Reflective Packages
  • Mixing Functional and Object-Oriented code
  • Metaprogramming in statically typed languages
  • Dynamic dispatch (Wikipage 1).....Dynamic dispatch (Wikipage 2)
  • Variable-naming conventions (Wikipage 1).....Variable-naming conventions (Wikipage 2).....Variable-naming conventions (Wikipage 3)
  • Overloading-Good or Bad
  • Metaprogramming in dynamically typed languages (Wikipage 1).....Metaprogramming in dynamically typed languages (Wikipage 2)
  • Type vs. class
  • Namespaces
  • Mixing static and dynamic code other than Ruby and Java (Wikipage 1).....Mixing static and dynamic code other than Ruby and Java (Wikipage 2)

• Section 3 : Language Types - This section discusses about various language types
  • Domain-specific object-oriented languages
  • Prototype-based programming
  • Delegation-based programming languages
  • Graphical o-o languages and systems

• Section 4 : Web Frameworks - This section talks about concepts related to web frameworks
  • Web frameworks in o-o languages
  • Scaffolding in Web application frameworks
  • Language extensions (not patterns or packages) for ORM (Wikipage 1).....Language extensions (not patterns or packages) for ORM (Wikipage 2)
  • Document Object Model
  • SAS Component Object Model
  • Object-relational mapping for Ruby

• Section 5 : Testing - This section talks about testing and the available testing frameworks
  • Writing meaningful test cases
  • Unit-Testing Frameworks for Ruby

• Section 6 : Design Patterns and Anti-patterns - This section discusses the design patterns and anti-patterns
  • The Singleton pattern in static and dynamic languages
  • The Strategy pattern in static and dynamic languages (Wikipage 1).....The Strategy pattern in static and dynamic languages (Wikipage 2)
  • The Command pattern in static and dynamic languages
  • Information Expert pattern
  • Pure Fabrication pattern
  • Protected Variations pattern (Wikipage 1).....Protected Variations pattern (Wikipage 2)
  • Call Super anti-pattern
  • Analysis Paralysis Anti-pattern

• Section 7 : Tools - This section discusses the tools used for static analysis in Ruby and GUI toolkits in Ruby
  • Static-analysis tools for Ruby
  • GUI toolkits in Ruby (Wikipage 1) ..... GUI toolkits in Ruby (Wikipage 2) ..... GUI toolkits in Ruby (Wikipage 3)

• Section 8 : Software Development Processes and Other Concepts - This section discusses about the concepts regarding Software Development Process and other miscellaneous concepts
  • Agile vs. other software-development methods (Wikipage 1).....Agile vs. other software-development methods (Wikipage 2)
  • Estimation in Agile projects
  • History of Version Control Systems
  • CRC Cards (Wikipage 1) ..... CRC Cards (Wikipage 2)