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

Preface

Design patterns and object-oriented programming. They hold such promise to make your life as a software designer and developer easier. Their terminology is bandied about every day in the technical and even the popular press. But it can be hard to learn them, to become proficient with them, to understand what is really going on.

Perhaps you have been using an object-oriented or object-based language for years. Have you learned that the true power of objects is not inheritance but is in “encapsulating behaviors”? Perhaps you are curious about design patterns and have found the literature a bit too esoteric and high-falutin. If so, this book is for you.

It is based on years of teaching this material to software developers, both experienced ...