The course covers the 23 design patterns in the book "Design Patterns", and 3 others added by the instructor.

It would be easy to say the following:

• completion of an introductory course in C++
• one year of experience programming in C++

but these are vague.

You must be able to do the following in C++:

• define a class
• declare/define/invoke a constructor
• declare/define/invoke a copy constructor
• declare/define/invoke a destructo
• declare/define/invoke operator=(
• declare/define/invoke a member functio
• declare/define/invoke a const member functio
• declare/define/invoke a static member functio
• declare/define/invoke a virtual member functio
• declare/define/invoke a pure virtual member functio
• define a class to be publicly derived from another clas
• write a member initialization list.