Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software 1st Edition

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These texts cover the design of object-oriented software and examine how to investigate requirements, create solutions and then translate designs into code, showing developers how to make practical use of the most significant recent developments. A summary of UML notation is included.

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Design Patterns is a modern classic in the literature of object-oriented development, offering timeless and elegant solutions to common problems in software design. It describes patterns for managing object creation, composing objects into larger structures, and coordinating control flow between objects. The book provides numerous examples where using composition rather than inheritance can improve the reusability and flexibility of code. Note, though, that it's not a tutorial but a catalog that you can use to find an object-oriented design pattern that's appropriate for the needs of your particular application--a selection for virtuoso programmers who appreciate (or require) consistent, well-engineered object-oriented designs.

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This book isn't an introduction to object-oriented technology or design. Many books already do a good job of that...this isn't an advanced treatise either. It's a book of design patterns that describe simple and elegant solutions to specific problems in object-oriented software design....Once you understand the design patterns and have had an "Aha!" (and not just a "Huh?" experience with them, you won't ever think about object-oriented design in the same way. You'll have insights that can make your own designs more flexible, modular, reusable, and understandable--which is why you're interested in object-oriented technology in the first place, right? -- From the Preface

This is one of the best written and wonderfully insightful books that I have read in a great long while...this book establishes the legitimacy of patterns in the best way: not by argument, but by example. -- C++ Report

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Hardcover: 395 pages
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional; 1 edition (November 10, 1994)
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Groundbreaking, back in the day

ByS. Austinon August 27, 2016

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When I first learned about this book I found it an exciting way to codify and categorize various OO techniques - I wouldn't say it introduced any new design/implementation strategies, but it gave us all a common terminology for what we'd been doing all these years. Since then, I suppose the terminology has largely entered the programming lexicon so it's useful for all OO programmers to be familiar with these concepts and terms.

However, we are way, way overdue for a new edition, one written using C++11/14 or modern Java for the examples. The C++98-based examples really date this book - lines and lines of code to illustrate what you'd do with a bit of STL in modern C++. The patterns themselves are still relevant, but I hope no one is taking the code examples too seriously.

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Timeless Programming Classic For The Ages

ByWilliam P Rosson April 7, 2016

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Twenty Two years since the book's publication it remains incredibly relevant. In the beginning I was surprised the discussion in 1994 was this high level. The preface and introduction are awesome. For example, there was one discussion about dynamically typed languages versus statically typed lanugages... I was not even aware this was being discussed in 1994.

In certain situations you see how this book changed the way the field of computer science developed. Before the writing of the book the authors originally called the Singleton pattern the Solitaire pattern. They changed it last minute (explained in the Conclusion) from Solitaire to Singleton, and that is a major part of why everybody calls it Singleton today.

Some people may have an issue with the age of book. When you read the introduction, they mention that C++ and Smalltalk are cutting edge programming languages. I know C++ pretty well, but I have never used Smalltalk. What I learned from the book was how Smalltalk was fundamental to creating the MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework. In a lot of places the authors point out situations where C++ programmers would implement a pattern one way, and Smalltalk programmers might use the pattern another way.

The book's examples are mostly about text writing programs, windowing, and drawing. These examples fit well for the patterns. You can also see how the current state of programming was much different. Text editors were creating huge innovations back then.

This book requires sophistication as a programmer. It will be a challenging book for pretty much anyone to understand completely. You need to have familiarity with the word choice as well. The authors assume you are well versed in their language. The glossary was pretty good in this book, I would recommend taking a look before you start.

The progression of the book is excellent. There is a lengthy introduction before getting to the patterns. This helps put the entire book in context and prepares you for the challenge to come. Each pattern is unique in subtle ways that the authors explain masterfully.

One hundred years from now this book will still work. The patterns are fundamental to software design itself. I wish most authors were this bold.

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Great book!

ByNick R.on February 14, 2017

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Great book. Seriously, very very good book. The reason I give it 4 instead of 5 stars is because it's written in a language that's hard to understand coming from mostly Ruby and Javascript background. Either way, this is a book I'll be coming back to for many years.

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BySiddhardhaon January 26, 2012

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As others have already noted, this is a seminal work on design patterns and is considered by many software professionals as a must read. It is probably a bit too complex for novices to design patterns in which case they are better off using another resource for starters (e.g.: Head First Design Patterns) and then eventually move on to this book. Head First design patterns was obviously easier to read and understand since the examples are more up to date and material is not as thorough as this book. It took me more than a month and half to read this book carefully from cover to cover. Although a lot of the patterns are discussed in depth from a theoretical level including evaluating trade-offs made with specific implementation choices, the examples in SmallTalk are out of date and not that relevant anymore but that's understandable given the publish date of this book (1994). Like some other books (e.g.: Java Concurrency in Practice), multiple readings are necessary to fully digest the material and that needs to be coupled with either independent practice of the specific implementation choices and/or other resources that have more examples of pattern implementations so as to not only reinforce understanding but also lay a solid foundation for Object Oriented Design. Most senior folks working with Object Oriented Systems typically have this book at their desk as a reference. I found one particular pattern, namely Interpreter, pretty difficult to follow. Other than that the rest of the material is readable. Having some familiarity with UML notation will help but the appendix includes explanation of the notation used in the book, so it is not a stopper if you don't have any exposure in that area. Towards the end of each chapter covering a given pattern, the authors include a section on related patterns which can be extremely helpful. This book also organizes different patterns into creational, structural and behavioral categories and also identifies which ones within a given category can supplement each other and which ones compete against each other. This book is not meant to be a comprehensive resource on design patterns and will have to be supplemented by other books. Highly recommended for anyone working with Object Oriented Systems.

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