Head First Design Patterns | Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, ...

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	Head First Design Patterns Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, ... O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 - 676 pages average customer review:based on 256 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Excellent book -- very different style

First off, this book is not for all programmers.
If you think the Gang of Four (GoF) books were great: stay way.
If you think the Gof book are not readable: get this book.

It was written by unconventional writers who are actually trying to TEACH the subject, rather than just tell you about it. That is different from almost all other tech books I see these days.

If you are new to design patterns, but know your object oriented design, this book could be for you. But please, go check out the book at a bookstore first.

Head First Design Patterns

This book is great. Granted, it is a little bit...cheesy, but it is a great way to learn design patterns in a fun and easy to understand way. The code is great, and the object lesson are very effective. Coupled with the price, this is a great book for teaching yourself all the way to a college text book replacement. (My Software Engineering class in college used it!)

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Great Book

I don't writes reviews, but this book was too good that I get forced from inside to write good about it. This book has every thing that you want to learn about design patterns.
This book is good for all level starting from Beginner to Advanced. And it has a different way of teaching that wills directly starting to make sense. Examples are based on real life problems, so it's definitely great book ever written on design patterns.
Two Thumbs up!!!

Applied design patterns...

This book is fun. More importantly, it really does "load the patterns [...] straight into your brain" with some concerted effort on the reader's part. Once it all clicks (assuming you aren't a design pattern guru already), OOP is taken to the next level! You just need to conceptually map ducks, turkeys, pizzas, and waitresses to your particular situation. Your APIs and apps will rock! (I suspect some people won't like this learning style but at least give it a chance.)

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A very good book (if you don't mind the informal style)

I've read 25% of the book and I'm very pleased with it.

I like its informal style, although you might find they sometimes abuse of their jokes and funny pictures. In my opinion, the authors manage to get you reading more and more (and what's most important: learning).

Behind its appearance of a funny book there's a serious work. The authors help you learn the most important patterns and how they follow the OO programming principles (this is important, that's why those patterns are good).

I highly recommend this book if you are new to patterns but, if you are more or less familiarized with them you probably should go for the classic Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series).

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