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Head First Design Patterns
Building Extensible and Maintainable Object-Oriented Software
Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson
Summary
Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson's second edition rebuilds the original brain-friendly format around modern examples, using heavy visuals and worked scenarios instead of dense prose to make each pattern's motivation, not just its structure, stick. Each chapter takes one recurring design problem, such as needing to notify dependent objects of a change or wanting to swap an algorithm at runtime, and shows why a naive object-oriented solution breaks down before introducing the pattern that fixes it. It stays close to the original Gang of Four patterns and the object-oriented design principles behind them, aiming to give a reader who has learned OOP syntax but not yet its design judgment a working vocabulary for both.
Target Readers
- Programmers who know object-oriented syntax but reach for inheritance or a long if/else chain by default and want a repertoire of alternatives
- Engineers preparing for design-heavy interviews or code reviews who need to recognize Gang of Four patterns by their motivating problem, not just their class diagram
- Readers who found the original Gang of Four book too dense as a first exposure to design patterns
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Colophon
- Publisher
- O'Reilly Japan
- ISBN
- 978-4873119762
- Published
- Jun 2022
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- ¥5,280incl. taxMay differ from the actual selling price on Amazon
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