Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design

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It is my belief that the best designers are not those who live and breathe programming and nothing else. Rather, being able to think and to listen, having a more complete and deep personality, and knowing ideas are what make for great designers. You can connect better with other people. You can glean ideas from other disciplines (for example, as we did from architecture and from anthropology). You will create systems that better take into account human beings, for whom our systems exist anyway.

Many of my students ask about what I like to read, what has shaped how I think and helped me in my journey. The following are my recommendations.