I would definitely recommend "Refactoring". For design patterns, the GoF book is good, but is more of a reference. For more of a tutorial, Head First Design Patterns is excellent.
A recent site (which I am not affiliated with) which has good recommendations is: http://www.programmingbooks.org/ iain duncan wrote: > I would really like to get well versed enough in architecture and design > to understand the guts of TG and it's components. Could experienced > designers share their opinions on best books for doing so at the > architecture level? I already own Cay Horstman's "Object Oriented Design > & Patterns" which is a good introductory OOD book, but would like the > next step. > > 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 ) > > Recommendations would be appreciated as we have no good computer book > store anymore in Vancouver so I need to mail order, and ordering $60 > books that suck is lame! I come from a C/C++ background and have learnt > Java through the Horstmann book, so would prefer if the linguistic focus > is on one of those two. > > Thanks everyone, this list is a great resource for the teach-yourself > types! > > Iain --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/turbogears?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
