Head First Design Patterns
by Eric Freeman
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Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.1
EAN: 9780596007126
ISBN: 0596007124
Label: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 676
Publication Date: 2004-10-25
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Studio: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Summary: Excellent for gaining understanding
Comment: I found this book excellent. Being a professional software engineer in the financial industry I always enjoy reading a good text book but this one stands out in that it helped me understand the patterns in a much more complete and thorough fashion. Some of the other reviewers giving it a lower grade mention that it can't be used as a quick reference - I completely disagree with this: The book gives you such a brilliant understanding of the patterns that the only quick reference you need is the name of the pattern. Everything else you will remember properly and with the code fragments you really understand how to use them and how to apply it in real life. It does of course help if you try to put what you learn to practice, especially "chain of command".
This book adds further value: After having read this book, other greater pattern books become easily understandable such as the gang of four book.
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Summary: Overated...
Comment: I'm all for new approaches in learning but I find that this book while seeking to de-mystify various OO design concepts actually introduces more confusion.
One of the worst offending chapters is the one on the factory design pattern. I find myself wanting to scream at the book 'ENOUGH PIZZA ALREADY, JUST TELL ME WHAT THE HELL I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE PATTERN GODDAMMIT!!!' After my 3rd re-read of the chapter I think I have been introduced to 2 1/2 patterns or rather one that is more of an 'idiom' than a pattern.
It doesn't help either when the authors state that it would be impossible to write a functioning programming if we stuck to ideal design principles.
My impression is that this book is getting rave reviews from other readers because they, like me, are sick of dense, unreadable tomes that give you a migraine within minutes of turning the first page.
I think that the authors have exchanged clarity for readability.
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Summary: Are people really giving this 5 stars
Comment: I am kind of surprised that so many people have given this 5 stars. I don't think this book is very good and here are my reasons.
1- The book is written in a style that some people may not like, although this was not a problem for me. What did annoy me was the way they wrote the code bit by bit over many pages filled with a lot of people and pizzas in between. It means you can never use it as a quick reference as you have to search for the final correct piece of code.
2- There are no full code examples. Yes everything presented is in fragments, you will never see a complete piece of programme.
3- It uses Java, which looks like C# to all intents and purposes. But this stops them from displaying full code listings. The code itself is all over the place.
4- The book is definitely bloated with what seems quite a lot of unnecessary explanations and re-explanations.
5- I never felt they gave enough programming scenarios of the advantages of using the patterns, although there was a lot of talk.
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Summary: Fantastic
Comment: A very good book. Its been written to be read from cover to cover and its a joy to do so. There are a lot of practice questions and task to do, which means you have to put the effort in but you will learn a lot.
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Summary: Not just for JAVA
Comment: I am an ASP.NET developer and write in VB and C#. If you program in any OO language the fact that this book is written in Java will not be a problem in the slightest.
This book impressed me by the way it took you through implementations of the design patterns in order to help break the learning curve down into more manageable segments. After reading each chapter I knew exactly how the pattern was applied and understood it fully.
Something that was a real eye opener for me was that from reading this book I could see that design patterns exist EVERYWHERE in the .NET framework. User controls implements the composite pattern, the whole event driven model is based around the observer pattern and I don't know how many times I've been unknowingly using the template pattern!
There really shouldn't be any reason an OO programmer doesn't read this book (even if they are already clued up on their design patterns). It's an easy, fun and enlightening read.
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