On 2007-01-11 10:18:08 -0800, iain duncan wrote: > The TG book recommends Martin Fowlers "Patterns of Enterprise > Application Architecture" and I have also heard good things about > Fowlers "Refactoring". And I keep hearing that the Gang of Four's > classic "Design Patterns" is great, but is it too old now? ( 1994 )
"Refactoring" is great. Highly recommended. GoF is still relevant though it's not that great an introduction to design patterns; more a reference book. Some of the sample code is C++ and some is Smalltalk. For an introduction to design patterns, "Head First Design Patterns" is actually pretty decent if the general style of the Head First books doesn't drive you nuts. Its sample code is all Java. -- anders pearson : http://www.columbia.edu/~anders/ C C N M T L : http://www.ccnmtl.columbia.edu/ weblog : http://thraxil.org/
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