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Head First Design Patterns
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Head First Design Patterns

by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra
October 2004
Intermediate to advanced
692 pages
15h 18m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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