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 enlarge | Authors: Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra
Publisher: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: £31.95
Buy New: £17.99
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 3447
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 676
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 8 x 1.3
ISBN: 0596007124
Dewey Decimal Number: 005.1
EAN: 9780596007126
ASIN: 0596007124
Publication Date: October 25, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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 Very clear March 27, 2008
Excellent book - very clear in putting the concepts across. Gradually builds towards understanding. Some repetition - but it works by re-enforcing the concepts. It's not often I read a technical book cover-to-cover.
from fog to crystal January 16, 2008
no pretentious use of jargon
clear and precise clarifications of OO as well as of patterns.
Best book on my bookshelf November 10, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you want a reference manual, a pattern catalogue, that you refer to once you are an expert in the field then the GoF book is the one. If you want to LEARN a number of the most common design patterns then this is the ONLY book to start with. This is the best software development text I have on my shelf. Being a J2EE developer for a large bank I tend to have a lot :).
I remember first looking at the format of these books and thinking great, more books full of fluff, dumbing down for the ipod generation. It's not the right format for a reference manual but it seems effective to get a first grasp on the material. Books written in a more abstract, formal manner cause cognitive overload and resulting in an inability to read a large portion of the book without the brain totally freezing. This book is compelling from start to end and can be read in a weekend without frying your brain.
It's pretty amazing that for a book that, at first glance, seems to be full of frivolous items not necessarily related to the content it delivers a lot of information very concisely. It's the gift of a telented teacher to delivery knowledge in a consise manner and shows how deeply they understand there subject.
Having just finished the book over the weekend I felt compelled to come to amazon in the early hours of the morning to write this review because it's a superb book and I'd certainly like to see the authors rewarded for their efforts.
 Java with wings ... ? October 2, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is such a brilliant book. I struggle to go beyond that simple statement. Why is it brilliant ?
It communicates incredibly powerful (sometimes almost sublime) approaches to solving common problems within real-world constraints (!). Yes, all the example *source code* is Java, but the surrounding text, explanations, diagrams, crosswords, exercises, are not. The sample Java code does not use any obscure fancy tricks. Every example could be easily translated to Objective C/Cocoa, C++, C#. So don't think of it as a Java book, its so much more than that.
When I read the first chapter of this book I could feel the hairs on the back of my neck starting to stand up as the depth of what I was understanding sunk in. If you've experienced that moment of the penny dropping, well many pennies drop per chapter with this book. By the end of the 1st chapter I was in awe of this book.
Of course it depends as always what you are looking for, but for me this is quite simply a book that opens certain doors wide open that might have always remained shut. It does this with a full set of working code examples for each chapter so you can experiment applying the patterns as presented.
Why not 5 stars ? I think that this is a superb book to learn the principles from, but it is not the de facto reference, so I will need to buy something beyond this book to fulfill that need (GoF *). 4.5 stars really.
* GoF - Gang of Four - "Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software" by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
Understanable September 26, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book explains clearly how and when to apply design patterns. Its not over complicated or cluttered with UML diagrams. Really impressed with this.
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