Design Patterns
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (Addison-Wesley Professional), contains 23 patterns that explain how to solve many problems associated with object-oriented programming. The patterns are divided into three categories:
- Structural: Patterns that help you put together the right arrangement of patterns to solve the problems
- Behavioral: Patterns that help you spread responsibility among your objects
- Creational: Patterns that help your system create new objects
This book is the first exposure many people get to patterns and a book that anyone doing object-oriented design should know. You've seen it referenced throughout this book.
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