An Introduction to OOP, Design Patterns, and TDD

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A concise primer that shows concrete artifacts: a Car class with constructor and public/protected/private properties, sample methods (accelerate, brake, steer), and PHPDocumentor-style comments; a PHPunit test that runs and reports "1 test, 3 assertions"; explanation of design patterns with WP_Rewrite as a Singleton example and the Widgets API/Walker as class-extension patterns; recommends the WordPress plugin boilerplate and shows how these pieces make modular code and catch regressions before deployment.

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" chapters (4)

1. 0:00Start
2. 17:58Build a Purple Car with Four Doors and a Luggage Rack
3. 18:28Documentation
4. 23:06Unit Testing and Test Driven Development

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