Design Pattern

2.7.04

Last year my supervisor introduced a book called "Design Pattern" to me and told me it was a great book for us in developing object-oriented softwares. He also kindly gave me his book. Up to now, however, I just read the first chapter :P as it is not an easy book for me, a junior developer. Can any one tells me, is it really a book not for the young? What is the best way to understand this theory and implement it into software development?

Surfing TeamB Blog, I surprisingly find Joanna Carter (TeamB) has some posts about Design Pattern in Delphi. Wooo.... Thanks Joanna!


Comments:
I actually have not read the book yet, but it is on my list to read. I expect it to be a great book for "junior developers" since you are not so set in your ways. You take a "senior developer" and try to teach them a new methodology (TDD, XP, etc.) or design pattern and you usually get a lot of resistance.

There was an article on the BDN on using the GOF Creational Pattern with C#.

Another good book I would recommend is Code Complete. We are just finishing reading it as a group for our local users group and they also came out with a 2nd edition. This book deals a lot with how you write code. These are the kind of habbits you want to develop early on so you are not trying to change the way you do things.

Jim, Thank you for introducing them to me. I have an interest on "Code Complete" and get its brief contents from internet. It's already in my must-buy list now.
By the way, what is the "Boise Software Developers Group"? Would you mind telling me about your group?

Another book you might consider is Design Patterns Explained by Alan Shalloway and James R. Trott.

The Boise Software Developers Group is a development tools support and users group in Boise, Idaho, USA. We have been around since the mid 1980's. We spent a little bit of time as specifically a Delphi users group, but now we have a very broad focus.

I am the president and a huge Delphi fan, although I am currently using Visual Studio and C# for my job. While I like learning new things I really miss Delphi and the superior Borland Developer Studio IDE. I found your Blog from Nick Hodges Blog, which I started visiting after Richard Hundhausen, a member of our group, attended the Minneapolis/St. Paul Delphi Users Group with Nick. Follow all that?

I think there is no Delphi developer group/fan club like yours in Hong Kong (except the offical Borland one). Maybe all here are busy with their works and lives, or none of TeamB members is in HK, I guess.

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