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Message from Dean - May 8th 2007
I am currently testing out a new version of the APF Bridge Component - If you notice any errors within this demo store please drop me a line.
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.12
EAN: 9780201633610
Edition: illustrated edition
ISBN: 0201633612
Label: Addison-Wesley Professional
Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: November 10, 1994
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional
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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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Four top-notch authors present the first book containing a catalog of object-oriented design patterns. Readers will learn how to use design patterns in the object-oriented development process, how to solve specific design problems using patterns, and gain a common vocabulary for object-oriented design.
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First let me start with the good points about this book.
This book absolutely rocks in terms of ways in which you can write a beautiful piece of code. The authors have picked up the best recipes which are time tested to create a book which should help everyone from a beginner to an expert. The book has been written for C++ programmers and requires some amount of experience in object oriented programming (hence java and c# programmers are fine too).
The bad points are:
It's old. The current and only edition came out in 1997. A second edition is long overdue. A lot has changed in the software methodologies since then. JAVA already incorporates a lot of things that are mentioned in this book. An example in point is the iterator pattern. Hence, a better book for JAVA programmers would be JAVA Design Patterns Explained or Head First Design Patterns.
Still a pretty great book...
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This is an excellent place to start when you have a problem. It won't do the work for you, but it will get you off on the right foot.
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Nobody is going to take away GoF's mantle, but is the 1995 book still the best available reference on, or introduction to, the subject? "Yes" on the former, emphatic "no" on the latter. One will be better off by consulting "Head First Design Patterns", and not lose that much by stopping there.
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This is a very good book by the famous GOF. I feel that this volume is a must have for the experienced application programmer.
On the way to become a more matured programmer, one begins to realize the relationship between machine and man. For system programming, the code should tip towards machine, that is, the ultimate goal is to make the program be as efficient as it can be. On the application programming side, it should be the other way around, and the code should be as readable as possible even when this means that the code would not be running at the most efficient way possible. Machine time is sacrificed for human developing/maintaining time.
After understanding the relation between close to machine and close to man, one then realizes that the programming concepts including OO, Design Patterns and the like are here to serve the purpose of helping human understand the code and not to help the machine. And only when the complexity introduced by using these ... Read More
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The book was delivered in timely fashion. It is in a good condition. I have no complains on the transaction
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