Awesome book - The best for understanding design patterns.

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	• Head First Design Patterns (Head First) Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, ... O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004 - 676 pages average customer review:based on 248 reviews view larger image
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This is the first ever technical book I could not stop reading as much as I can...

Awesome book - The best for understanding design patterns.

This is the best design patterns book i have ever read. With a completely new approach this book makes learning design patterns such an enjoyable reading experience with lot of FUN. Having worked with Object Oriented programming in Java for many years i found myself enjoying the reading with every page and could see many aspects of design practically unfold in multitude of images in my mind as well as in the book. The examples are great, the bullet points are excellent and the pace and tone of the text alongwith the images and drawings are absolutely fantastic. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to learn and apply patterns in their object oriented programming using Java or C#.

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Design patterns

If you want a book to learn design patterns without falling asleep while doing it, this is the book. It allows you to learn design patterns and then go to other more "textbook" resources for a deeper understanding.

Some buyers might be turned off to the book because all the code snippets are in Java. I am not a big Java user, more C++, but I found the code snippets in the book easy enough to follow.

Excellent book

Excellent book if you want to learn design patterns. These guys do a great job at making learning fun. The way things are explained, it is easy to grasp , you wont get bored. Must buy.

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This is quite a long book (638 pages) considering that it only covers about 13 design patterns in detail. The original Design Patterns by the 'gang of four' covered about 23 patterns. However the Head First book has some advantages. 1st: It's not nearly as abstract and computer science orientated as the 'gang of 4' book. 2nd: It's written to take account of the fact that these design patterns are not common sense - they are not intuitive. So the authors use quite a lot of diagrams, various cute 'Head First' learning strategies, reinforced examples and practical exercises. 3rd: The Head First books also explains some of the principles of OOD (and they do this as they explain why the patterns are that way) which is something I didn't find in the other C# 'Design Patterns' book I got which covered all the origninal 'gang of 4' patterns [the other book is 'Design Patterns', publ. 2007, ISBN: 1598220314 by C. Lasater]. So the Head First book is recommended. The Head First examples are in java but java is very close to C# and someone has converted all the code to C# anyway which you can get by following the link at the book code download page http://www.wickedlysmart.com/HeadFirst/HeadFirstDesignPatterns/HeadFirstPatternsIndex.html. A note on this Head First C# code. It's written for dot net 1.1 and assumes you will use NUnit to run it. NUnit is a free download but although I could install NUnit 2.41 and convert the C# code to dot net 2.0 I couldn't figure out how to get it to work with NUnit. This is probably because I've not used NUnit previously!. I'm having to convert each pattern to to a console application and write a main() to test it. That is only a small amount of work.

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