Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson

Overview

What will you learn from this book?

You know you don't want to reinvent the wheel, so you look to Design Patterns: the lessons learned by those who've faced the same software design problems. With Design Patterns, you get to take advantage of the best practices and experience of others so you can spend your time on something more challenging. Something more fun. This book shows you the patterns that matter, when to use them and why, how to apply them to your own designs, and the object-oriented design principles on which they're based. Join hundreds of thousands of developers who've improved their object-oriented design skills through Head First Design Patterns.

What's so special about this book?

If you've read a Head First book, you know what to expect: a visually rich format designed for the way your brain works. With Head First Design Patterns, 2E you'll learn design principles and patterns in a way that won't put you to sleep, so you can get out there to solve software design problems and speak the language of patterns with others on your team.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492077954
Publisher:	O'Reilly Media, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/24/2020
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	672
File size:	123 MB
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About the Author

Eric Freeman is a computer scientist, technology writer, entrepreneur and a former CTO at the Walt Disney Company. Eric’s most recent book, Head First Learn to Code, is a beginners book for coding and computational thinking. Eric lives with his wife and young daughter in Austin, Texas. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Yale University.

Elisabeth Robson is the co-author of several Head First books, including Head First Design Patterns, and is a principal at WickedlySmart, an online learning company for software developers.

Table of Contents

• Praise for Head First Design Patterns
• More Praise for Head First Design Patterns
• Praise for other books by Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson
• Authors of Head First Design Patterns
• Creators of the Head First series (and co-conspirators on this book)
• How to Use This Book: Intro
• Chapter 1: Intro to Design Patterns: Welcome to Design Patterns
• Chapter 2: The Observer Pattern: Keeping your Objects in the know
• Chapter 3: The Decorator Pattern: Decorating Objects
• Chapter 4: The Factory Pattern: Baking with OO Goodness
• Chapter 5: The Singleton Pattern: One of a Kind Objects
• Chapter 6: The Command Pattern: Encapsulating Invocation
• Chapter 7: The Adapter and Facade Patterns: Being Adaptive
• Chapter 8: The Template Method Pattern: Encapsulating Algorithms
• Chapter 9: The Iterator and Composite Patterns: Well-Managed Collections
• Chapter 10: The State Pattern: The State of Things
• Chapter 11: The Proxy Pattern: Controlling Object Access
• Chapter 12: Compound Patterns: Patterns of Patterns
• Chapter 13: Better Living with Patterns: Patterns in the Real World
• Leftover Patterns
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• Mighty Gumball
• Colophon

Editorial Reviews

The Barnes & Noble Review
If there’s one subject that needs to be taught better, needs to be more fun to learn, it’s design patterns. Thank goodness for Head First Design Patterns.

From the awesome Head First Java folks, this book uses every conceivable trick to help you understand and remember. Not just loads of pictures: pictures of humans, which tend to interest other humans. Surprises everywhere. Stories, because humans love narrative. (Stories about things like pizza and chocolate. Need we say more?) Plus, it’s darned funny.

It also covers an enormous swath of concepts and techniques, including nearly all the patterns you’ll use most (observer, decorator, factory, singleton, command, adapter, façade, template method, iterator, composite, state, proxy). Read it, and those won’t be “just words”: they’ll be memories that tickle you, and tools you own. Bill Camarda, from the January 2005 Read Only

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