In 1994, four authors Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides published a book (Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software) for explaining the concept of Design Pattern in Software development. These four authors are collectively known as Gang of Four (GOF). GOF Design Patterns The 23 Design patterns are defined by the Gang of Four programmers.
These 23 patterns are divided into three groups depending on the nature of the design problem they intend to solve. Creational Design Patterns These patterns deal with the process of objects creation in such a way that they can be decoupled from their implementing system. This provides more flexibility in deciding which objects need to be created for a given use case/ scenario. There are as follows:.: Create instances of derived classes.: Create instances of several classes belonging to different families.: Separates an object construction from its representation.: Create a duplicate object or clone of the object.: Ensures that a class can has only one instance.
Structural Design Patterns These patterns deal with the composition of objects structures. The concept of inheritance is used to compose interfaces and define various ways to compose objects for obtaining new functionalities. There are as follows:.: Match interfaces of different classes.: Separates an object’s abstraction from its implementation.: A tree structure of simple and composite objects.: Add responsibilities to objects dynamically.: A single class that represents an entire complex system.: Minimize memory usage by sharing as much data as possible with similar objects.: Provides a surrogate object, which references to other object. Behavioral Design Patterns These patterns deal with the process of communication, managing relationships, and responsibilities between objects.
You know I'm going to recommend the actual and original Gang of Four book. It's a hell of a read but it's completely worth the effort. You will learn more than just the design patterns if you do that. Like for example how to read pattern style books. Many other books are using the pattern based format so it's good to get familiar with it. Took me a while to get to grips with the patterns from the book but glad I did. It's not a good idea to shy away from things that are difficult.
It's the difficult things you should be taking on. It's how you improve yourself and I'm not just talking programming here. Anyway good luck and all the best. 'The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff.
He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.' - Fred Brooks. Hello Tiya01. If you gone through go4 design pattern you have some understanding of those. But I also found hard to understand those( for me only and its my openion). But then one of my friend refer me 'HeadFirst Design Patterns' and after reading it i found it is one of the best book even for beginner.Although it is in java but you will not face any problem if you dont know java.Below is the link.Arrange the book (hard copy or PDF) and start learning you will know why i am saying so. For more example and problems you can find the internet and learn with different situations.
Want to add MVP with my name. You know I'm going to recommend the actual and original Gang of Four book. It's a hell of a read but it's completely worth the effort.
You will learn more than just the design patterns if you do that. Like for example how to read pattern style books. Many other books are using the pattern based format so it's good to get familiar with it. Took me a while to get to grips with the patterns from the book but glad I did. It's not a good idea to shy away from things that are difficult.
It's the difficult things you should be taking on. It's how you improve yourself and I'm not just talking programming here. Anyway good luck and all the best. 'The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.'
- Fred Brooks. Thanks Derek Symth. I am not in those who run away from difficulties:) I know GO4 is the ultimate source for studying design patterns. But as I am just a beginner I found it tough to go through. So my plan is to study Design patterns in easy language to a stage where I can relate with it. Then will move back to GO4. Neways, Thanks for your advice.
Have a Good Day:) Every day its a new learning. Keep Learning!! If this post answers your question, please click Mark As Answer. If this post is helpful please click Mark as Helpful. Hello Derek Thanks for the reply.
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Yes I am agree with you without any doubt. I was assuming that OP is beginner in Design pattern and thats why i refer that book. Yes GO4 is a good book also but sometimes ( not for all as i already mentioned before) it does not suit for beginner. Yes if OP can start from that it is well and good.I study both Go4,HeadFirst and also web searches. And not favoring any special book. As he told that he already visited GO4 and still not clear.
Thanks Want to add MVP with my name. @Derek, the thing there is that all the examples are made in C and for a beginner that wants to learn these patterns with no prior knowledge it might be extremely hard not only to understand these patterns but identifying them in the real world.
It's not about running from difficulties it's about knowing your limits and what you're capable of doing at your current level of expertise so you won't waste your time. I advise you to buy the book this book can get you started, at least in my opinion.;) , Regards. Hi everyone, Wasn't fully aware, for a Friday, that Tiya01 was a beginner. Yeah everyone has suggested lots of great sources of information, I have seen the Head First book; a beginner showed me it and he really liked it. Said it explained things in a way that made the patterns easy to comprehend.That would be my new recommendation.
Of course there is no way the GoF book will be read once the patterns are learned.:) That's how it works, we all know it, and that's cool.;) Take it easy folks. 'The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.' - Fred Brooks. As others have suggested 'Head First Design Patterns' is a good starting point albeit using Java. For a different (if more jaundiced) view you could also look at 'Holub On Patterns' published by APress.
It's also in Java but has a good appendix that summarizes the GOF patterns. It's not really a beginners book but in my view an antidote to the everything is a pattern approach.
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Regards David R - Every program eventually becomes rococo, and then rubble. Alan Perlis The only valid measurement of code quality: WTFs/minute. I fully understands what you want. When you e.g. Write Button1Click(object sender, EventArgs e) Are you then using the observer pattern? When you make a web reference, and you get some files generated by magic, is that then proxy pattern, and the classes proxy classes?
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I have tried to look if anyone ever wrote something that matched to gang of 4 book to.Net. But sadly I haven't found anything. The word Factory today is more or less used about any method that returns a big object.
The gang of 4's abstract factory is more what people Factory today normally. If you find something that tries to make the map, please post a good link. It has nothing to do with the original gang of four book, since so much has happened with lambda's and delegates that the original class diagrams are overly complicated. It has nothing to do with the original gang of four book, since so much has happened with lambda's and delegates that the original class diagrams are overly complicated. Most of the diagrams there are pretty simple and generic what's so complicated about them?
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The only confusing thing there might be that changes to the UML such as aggregation and composition, that's all. These diagrams are completely independent from programming languages and implementation details so lambda and delegates has nothing to do with it. I think the design patterns is most important for real developer. My experience tells me that you need to read more amazing code. Usually the code included a lot of design patterns.
In addition, you can look at this book. Any kind of developer that takes software design seriously will want to learn more about the theory before seeing any kind of code. What is the zip code for al ain uae location. Design patterns are design solutions to recurring software problems, meaning, you need to identify a problem in existing software design, then design a solution and the implementation of the solution is going to be either generic or specific depends on the context but either way an inexperienced developer will not able to understand anything not to mention learning from it. Most design patterns examples are there to get an idea of the implementation, nothing more.
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