Gangs of Four GoF Design Patterns
Table Of Content A guide to Los Angeles architecture A quick primer on Los Angeles architectural styles The 10 ugliest buildings in Los Angeles The 8 coolest retro diners in Los Angeles Patterns by type Examples of Design Patterns in Action I don'trecommend it until you're pretty comfortable with the basic principlesof OO design. Even then it takes a fair investment of effort to reallyappreciate the book. The authors also discuss so-called parameterized types, which are also known as generics (Ada, Eiffel, Java, C#, VB.NET, and Delphi) or templates (C++). These allow any type to be defined without specifying all the other types it uses—the unspecified types are supplied as 'parameters' at the point of use. Using inheritance is recommended mainly when adding to the functionality of existing components, reusing most of the old code and adding relatively small amounts of new code. The book started at a birds-of-a-feather session at the 1990 OOPSLA meeting, "Toward...