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 enlarge | Authors: Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
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Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 7.4 x 1.2
ISBN: 0201633612
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.12
UPC: 785342633610
EAN: 9780201633610
ASIN: 0201633612
Publication Date: November 10, 1994
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 OO Patterns January 5, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Good basic reference book for design patterns. The organization is NOT for reading ease, but for easy reference when you know what you're looking for to be reminded exactly what a particular pattern is all about. One sentence synopsis--Encapsulate what you expect to change.
 A good book for its purpose December 13, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book does a great job of explaining patterns and pointing out benefits and drawbacks to each one. As an aspiring OO developer of business applications though, this books does not provide much guidance. The examples are given for real-time applications like user interfaces for a drawing application, etc. Applying these patterns to a distributed application with a database backend that records everything is a tough leap to make. I give it a high rating because it does its job well, however, I wish it would have addressed a broader scope of application types.
 So so November 2, 2006
3 out of 10 found this review helpful
Although this book initiated the now-famous design patterns phenemon,I think we have better alternatives these days.The book has sample codes in C++.
I personally liked Head First Design Patterns.
Required reading for your blue belt October 5, 2006
2 out of 21 found this review helpful
Everyone who wants to write OO code needs to read this book. No, let me re-phrase, *must master* this book.
When you have *mastered* this book, we will award you a blue belt and you can then move on to Martin Fowler's book.
If you don't know which book I mean by "Martin Fowlers" book, you haven't mastered this book. So don't expect the blue belt until you do.
Expect only beatings with the blue belt.
An approach to this software classic September 6, 2006
19 out of 20 found this review helpful
"Design Patterns" (GoF = Gang of Four) is a signicant and, in many ways, a difficult work for the modern reader (me) to digest. The material in this book is highly self-referential: to understand a particular design pattern, it is important to be familiar with many similar, if not all, design patterns.
I would like to offer a suggestion about an approach that worked well for me. As an introduction to the patterns field, I first read "Head First Design Patterns", which offers a highly competent but light-hearted presentation of the same patterns covered by GoF. The Head First book gave me a thorough overview of the patterns landscape, as well as gently drilling me on pattern application. The Head First book goes out of its way to provoke the thinking reader, while being the most entertaining computer science text that I have ever read.
With this introduction, I found "Design Patterns" to be a much more accessible and friendlier work.
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