Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt, 2nd Edition

Foreword

I still remember how I first got to know C++ and Qt. It was around 15 years ago while working on my diploma thesis. Most of the development we did at that time was done in Fortran and C. I was working on a Linux system with FVWM as a window manager. One day I read an article about KDE—a cool, new open source project to create a desktop environment for Linux. Being not really happy with the user interface that Linux had to offer, I went to download, compile, and install the package.

KDE used Qt as the underlying framework. After some time as a user, I started contributing to the KDE project. Although I had studied object-oriented programming at university, it was only when I started developing for KDE with Qt that I really learned and ...