[ajug-members] GOF Design Patterns book title

[Ramesh Chandra]

Will this book be helpful for the Sun Certified Java Architect exam?





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From: Chris Abney <Chris.Abney at theice.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 12:07:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ajug-members] GOF Design Patterns book title

 
That's the rite one.  Typically one only reads the first 3 or 4 chapters of that book as the rest is more like reference.  
Certainly the code example are outdated but a lot of other the parts of each pattern chapter are still valid.  
In the mid 90s, it was the best thing available.  Now there is a tone of good books and stuff on the web to learn from.  GOF (the first popular book on the topic) is best used as a reference.
If you have about 100 books on programming like me, you need to have that book. (Some will debate that, though.)  If I was building my collection, I'd buy it. (but I'm done with that.)
 
This is a good sitefor patterns:  http://www.industriallogic.com/papers/learning.html

 

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 From: Ramesh Chandra [mailto:ramesh_chandra_k at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 11:34 AM
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Subject: Re: [ajug-members] GOF Design Patterns book title




 Hi

I have always heard about the GOF design patterns book and always wanted to buy it. Now I am ready to buy it and read it. I wanted to know the exact title of that famous book. Is it this one?

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Object-Oriented-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0201633612/ref=pd_bbs_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1216999808&sr=8-1

Thanks
Ramesh






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From: SilverAnvil <silveranvil at gmail.com>
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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 8:15:40 AM
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I'd agree on Groovy in Action. Made me want to fire up the computer every time I started reading it just so I could try things out as I went. I normally look to O'Reilly for good books, but I got this one as a book reviewer and it got me looking at more books in the series - just in case they were of the same caliber.

If you want to teach it, I think the Head First books are excellent. But they aren't intended to be reference manuals, so if that's one of your goals then another format might be better for you.

And, congrats on the acceptance. I suspect that will give the project a big boost.

Burk
-- 
"The only rules that really matter are these: what a man can do and what a man can't do." Captain Jack Sparrow 

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