Chapter 8
Model Citizen
This chapter is all about the model-view-controller design pattern. Design patterns, which I talked about in Chapter 6, are reusable solutions to common programming problems. The model-view-controller (MVC) design pattern is, arguably, the most important and wide-ranging design pattern used today. In this chapter, you’ll learn about the following:
- What the model-view-controller design pattern is
- What makes a good data model
- What makes a good view object
- What makes a good controller object
- How MVC objects communicate with each other
- When you can cheat
You might be thinking that all of this MVC stuff is a bunch of esoteric computer science theory that won’t really help you write your Death Star Laser Cannon Control ...
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