Description
Capturing a wealth of experience about the design of object-oriented software, four top-notch designers present a catalog of simple and succinct solutions to commonly occurring design problems. Previously undocumented, these 23 patterns allow designers to create more flexible, elegant, and ultimately reusable designs without having to rediscover the design solutions themselves.
The authors begin by describing what patterns are and how they can help you design object-oriented software. They then go on to systematically name, explain, evaluate, and catalog recurring designs in object-oriented systems. With Design Patterns as your guide, you will learn how these important patterns fit into the software development process, and how you can leverage them to solve your own design problems most efficiently.
Each pattern describes the circumstances in which it is applicable, when it can be applied in view of other design constraints, and the consequences and trade-offs of using the pattern within a larger design. All patterns are compiled from real systems and are based on real-world examples. Each pattern also includes code that demonstrates how it may be implemented in object-oriented programming languages like C++ or Smalltalk.
Must-Read for Every Software Developer and Engineer
This classic is on just about every single must-read list for software developers, engineers, and architects (including lists featured on ZDNET, DZone, Guru99, Built In, Geeks for Geeks, Hacker News, and more) as a bible for solving software design problems effeciently.
Despite being one of the oldest books on a software engineer’s shelf, it is still relevant and THE guide to creating reusable designs that are elegant and flexible, without having to rediscover the design solutions themselves.
Review
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
Book details
- Author : Dr. Erich Gamma & John Vlissides
- Publisher : Addison-Wesley Professional
- Publication date : October 31, 1994
- Edition : 1st
- Print length : 463 pages
- Language : English
- Format : Paperback
