Design Patterns

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Summary: A solid topic flawed by too much text
Review: While the book does identify many good design patterns, it falls apart when communicating these patterns. While the authors have identified the patterns, they have added too much superflous discussion and missed the chance to communicate the concepts through simplicity. The diagrams inside the covers are worth as much as everthing between them. The authors should have built upon the diagrams slowly and showed *through the diagrams themselves* how one pattern differs from another.

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Summary: Awesome!!
Review: This book is a MUST for any programmer/ software engineer who has to do anything with OO design/development! To me this is one of the best technical books I have ever read!! Great job! I would love to see the examples of the books in Java (apart from C++/Smalltalk)...

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Summary: Best book on Programming (OO or Otherwise)
Review: This is one of the three books I will buy if I am allowed to buy just three books in my life. The other two are (1) The Timeless way of Building and (2) Pattern Languages.

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Summary: Teach this in the colleges
Review: I am reading resumes these days from recent graduates of schools like the University of California at Irvine. The kids rarely list the letters "OO" in their bulleted items. Design Patterns should be taught in the colleges. And we are not teaching Mithraicism here - the acolytes do not need to be lead from the lessor to greater mysteries. OO and DP are _not_ advanced or post-graduate subjects; teach them the FIRST SEMESTER. If the colleges get this clue, I might even consider attending one myself ;-)

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Summary: This book rocks!
Review: This book is the definitive guide to object-oriented development.

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Summary: You're going to have to buy this book sometime
Review: The book commonly referred to as just "Design Patterns" begins with an introduction to Object Oriented Programming and continues with a catalog of design patterns. I wouldn't recommend this book as your first OOP book, but I believe that once you have a basic understanding of OOP, you can try to cope with some of the basic Design Patterns in this book. If you are an advanced OO programmer, it's helpful to just quickly review any pattern you're about to implement and examine possible implementation issues

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Summary: Grok OOP
Review: This book is fantastic. Anyone at all interested in Object Oriented Programming should pick it up and read it. Design Patterns are not just some Computer Science gimmik, or far-fetched theory. Rather, they are a simple, but strikingly effective way of looking at a problem, breaking it down, and finding a solution. If you've ever wanted to get the big "Aha!" behind OOP and all of its related buzzwords, this is the way to do it. Every computer programmer should read this book

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Summary: Superior OOD text, definitely worth a read.
Review: This book is a clear elucidation of a complex sub topic within the Object Oriented Design methodology; namely the application of a set of 23 design templates to common design problems. It has a strong academic base, with only one chapter, (no. 2), giving a well worked example. The book is broken up into 6 chapters, with chapters 3, 4 and 5 each describing a different category of pattern template. All 23 patterns fall into one of these chapters. Chapter 6 acts like a summary of the design pattern community and current research directions. Highly recommended reading for software engineers dabbling in OOD at the intermediate to advanced level. Would form a basis for graduate level study course in OOD. Suffers from only having one well worked example. Would benefit from a supplementary book with detailed applications of all the design patterns

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Summary: Best OO book of the year!
Review: I read this last year. Great book. I regularly use the patterns in thinking and discussion now (not to mention code). If there was one book to read to help w/ OO thinking, this would be it.

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Summary: Helpful Reference Object-Oriented Design Textbook
Review: This book clearly presents dozens of design patterns applied to "real-world" applications. Whereas the design patterns presented are usually basic in their nature, the book provides a glossary that can always be referred to, and provides concise and important terminology and descriptions.