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Summary: Readable and Understandable
Comment: This is a book that I recommend to all of the software developers I work with, it is so much more than the gang of 4, it is actually readable. The unique format used to address the topics helps with retention and understandability. The only complaint that I would have about the book, and the reason I gave it 4 stars, is that the examples used are impractical and sometimes silly. The authors also could have alluded more to the usages of algorithms and efficiency of code.
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Summary: If GoF makes you sleepy ... buy this!
Comment: Head First did a fantastic job on replacing the GoF classic...
Nicely written, good examples, ...
Original comparison between the patterns.
Must have!
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Summary: Great starter book to design patterns
Comment: This book is very exciting and cleverly designed. It teaches with great examples and emphesize every detail with humorous content which helps you to memorize. I really believe in this way of learning methodology instead of heavy books which I have covered most of the serious patterns in one week on my vacation. Now I'm back home and I'll code some examples about all of them.
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Summary: First glance may resembles a comic book, but ...
Comment: At first glance this book resembles a comic book, and this may persuade you to put away the book. I recommend that you go through the first chapter and make your decision.
In reality as SW Engineers while designing a system we consider a set of requirements required to meet current deadline. We also attempt to think through several permutations and combinations of these requirements that may be required in future. Often, we fall short in conceiving all that is need to meet future requirements.
This book walks through such scenarios and at times points out how to design software while mitigating such changes to minimal in future releases.
At times some examples present a simplistic approach. Also I would have liked to see some performance analysis while comparing one approach with other.
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Summary: Accessible and immediately useful
Comment: [Reviewed by XPSD member Ryan Shiffer]
My previous experience in studying design patterns has been met with failure. I have tried getting through the Gang of Four book on design patterns, but reading it for me was about the same as reading the dictionary. Reading this book made the experience of learning design patterns an enjoyable experience instead of a literary root canal. Head First Design Patterns takes the most useful (and understandable) design patterns and makes them accessible to the everyday programmer.
Each chapter tackles one or sometime two related design patterns and creates a rich example to explain it with. Some examples are a little contrived, but they do the job to explain the patterns with real code. Along with this are lots of discussions and other interesting exercises to hold your attention. These help to further explain the pattern, some of the pattern's pitfalls, and where and when it is appropriate to use the pattern.
Along with introducing design pattern, this book reinforces object-oriented design principles and best practices. This proved to be a useful addition to the design patterns and helps root them in the larger picture of object-oriented design. I found myself immediately applying these principles and design patterns in my coding and reviewing older code where I "thought" I was using design patterns correctly.
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