Comments about oreilly Head First Design Patterns:

I went through couple of patterns, it is very fun to read. Haven't got a chance to go through the whole book.

Comments about oreilly Head First Design Patterns:

It is an amazing book. It is easy to read and understand. But I'd give it 5 stars if there were the mobi (for kindle) version. I can not read the pdf in my kindle.

Comments about oreilly Head First Design Patterns:

Highly recommended for any software developer / designer / architect.

An hilarious way to explore the more common and more useful design patterns, under what circumstances do they come in handy, and what happens if you try other solutions to these situations.

On top of all that, HFDP is abundant with real-life and funny use cases.

Comments about oreilly Head First Design Patterns:

This book has wrong solution in chapter 2 on Observer pattern. The Code Magnet Exrecise solution shows that following code is in construcotr wheras it has to be in update().

WeatherData weatherData = (WeatherData)observable;

Overall I liked this book a lot for its presentation and way of making things understandable.

Thanks for this.

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I use the book as mandatory reading in my introductory patterns course. It fun to read and work with. The format (style etc.) chosen does its job.

Comments about oreilly Head First Design Patterns:

Patterns is the next level in the world of UML-analysis. So I bought the book and the poster about two years ago and I am still trying to fully grasp patterns. The book spends about 30-50 pages on each pattern, and it fully explains everything you need to apply the pattern. But understanding where to apply the pattern does not come automatically with this book. It takes me hours of dwelling back on the subject to fully understand the essence and potential of the pattern.

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Design patterns is a subject very hard to explain. I found quite hard to understand some patterns because simply providing the code itself is not good enough. A clear explanation of the pattern must be given and this is exactly what I found is this book.

I have read many design patterns books which were not near as good as this one. Reading it you will finally have a good understanding of design patterns.

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The mnemonic tool that is most effective is exaggeration for the sake of emphasis and memorization. When I embarked on learning the Gof4 design patterns, the resources I was exposed to were so dry, abstract and boring. Trying to remember all of those things was difficult. This book offers concrete examples (though silly) that make them patterns and principles easy to remember and apply.

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I read the books on G of 4 Design Patterns and they are dull, dry and abstract. When I picked this book, it brought all of those things alive and made them very accessible to the understanding. No more abstract speak but real-world, concrete examples. The writing style seems silly but I've found that the way to remember things is to add exaggeration and imagination to it to make it memorable. They did that in this book. I recommend it for anyone wanting to migrate from developer to designer.

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Excellent book with real time examples