Head First Design Patterns Review

[Vlek]

After completing the book and going through the design patterns, review the book itself.

Specifically for this book, need to go into whether the examples for the different design patterns made sense.

[Vlek]

Finished the book. Really liked it.

Immediately put things into practice in my blackjack project.

Not only do they go over design patterns, but they also go into basic object oriented programming principles as well which was really good.

I also liked that at the end of the book they had a "so what now?" section where they detailed how to document design patterns, what one was likely to do after learning them (basically overuse them to hell), and how to keep learning from where they are now.

From memory, patterns that they go over are:

• strategy pattern
• adapter pattern
• factory pattern
• factory method pattern
• command pattern
• facade pattern
• iterator pattern
• remote pattern

with some call outs and handwaving on:

• bridge pattern
• flywheel pattern
• builder pattern

Would strongly suggest this book to others.