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You’re not alone. At any given moment, somewhere in the world someone struggles with the same software design problems you have. You know you don’t want to reinvent the wheel (or worse, a flat tire), so you look to Design Patterns–the lessons learned by those who’ve faced the same problems. With Design Patterns, you get to take advantage of the best practices and experience of others, so that you can spend your time on… something else. Something more challeng… More >>
#1 by C. Way on January 28, 2010 - 6:06 pm
This is by far the most stupid book ever written on the subject of design patterns. If you enjoyed this book, or if you found its style to be useful in learning, then you have no right working in the software development field. This book is written by dummies for dummies. Period!
Sure, you may learn a few things about design patterns, but you did it using child like learning methods. That should raise some red flags about your ability to understand complex technical subjects like a grown adult. If you cannot learn from real sources, then please, please, please, stay away from any sort of programming career.
Rating: 1 / 5
#2 by Pengxiaohong on January 28, 2010 - 8:39 pm
book in water, and curly;
but the content is really interesting
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Gregory L. Smith on January 28, 2010 - 11:25 pm
The Head First series is a colossal waste of time. This series is like the “Complete Idiots Guide” or “For Dummies” guides but from O’Reilly. The books are littered with cartoons and analogies that detract from the subject matter. This series has a retching case of the cutes.
A developer wants facts and usable information, not glyphs, jokes, puns, cartoons, and waste. The O’Reilly series of books are famous for their to-the-point bare-bones factual content. This style of book is like Marvel or DC comics trying to teach children technology.
Don’t waste your time, energy, or worse, your money on this series.
Rating: 1 / 5
#4 by Nathan Hunn on January 28, 2010 - 11:34 pm
the book was sent in a timely manner and was in great condition
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Verbist on January 28, 2010 - 11:53 pm
I saw some code with a class build to specifically hard-code a product name and price. My first reaction was to think that an object diagram was confused for a class diagram. But no, it is an “endorsed” pattern, as the maker could refer to the Decorator example of Head First Design Patterns (page 97 discussing linear recursive lists). The pattern book shows it can be worse with a full blown class explosion (p81), so it is OK I guess.
Rating: 3 / 5