October 2004
Beginner
480 pages
8h 43m
English
book
Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design, Second Edition
by Alan Shalloway, James R. Trott
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Part IIThe Limitations of Traditional Object-Oriented Design
Part Overview
In this part, I solve a real-world problem using standard object-oriented methods. This was a problem I worked on when I was just beginning to learn design patterns.
This part is important to read because it illustrates a typical problem that results from traditional object-oriented design—taller-than-necessary inheritance hierarchies that have tight coupling and low cohesion.