Head First Design Patterns,   ISBN:9780596007126

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I tried reading other books on the same topic before but I gave up finally after sometime. Their presentation is either boring, too brief, without much explanation, lack of proper example or simply too difficult to read. That book is totally different. I read it quickly and found it very interesting to read. The idea is clearly presented in a comprehensivable way with short text, many graphics and illustration. Example is easy to understand. Highly recommend. No need to think, buy it!!!

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First, this is a Design Patterns book which takes a different approach to teaching ideas from the original GOF book, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software.
Although I never read the original book, I looked at it enough times to know that it would be a difficult read. That book is a better reference book after you've read the Head First book to learn the concepts.

What I really like about this book is the emphasis on helping the reader to learn and understand the material. Head First Labs put serious thought into how people learn and they apply this knowledge to existing topics like Design Patterns.

Most of the code examples were in JAVA but they are simple enough to translate to C# without any trouble. There are a few design patterns, such as the iterator pattern, that can be accomplished in C# in a better way (ie. yield statement). I still found it helpful to know the iterator pattern by name and what it solves so I really understand what the yield statement does. So learn the concepts but expect to apply them in C# differently.

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I have been looking for a Design Patterns book for awhile, and have read a few sample chapters from a few books out there, including the GOF's, and Design patterns in C#. Honestly, although GOF book is the bible of Design Patterns, it was hard to understand... When I grabbed the Head First Design Patterns book - the first thought that came to my mind was - this cant be serious... and surprisingly, the authors knew the readers would get that feeling at first, as explained in the introduction section. I read a sample chapter, and finally it was making sense to me. The language is common conversational style, and with lots of diagrams and most importantly I like the way it gradually introduces you to the problem and how a specific design pattern can be used to solve it...

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This is an excellent book on design patterns. The book really helps to understand various design patterns, oo principles. I would definitely recommend this book. A must read.

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I believe this book is a must have for those people that are new to Design Patterns or want to refresh themselves with the concepts of the most used Design Patterns. This book uses pictures and easy to understand terminology that helps you get a grasp of key concepts quickly, and retain them. This book is so much more fun to read and easier to understand than some of the other books out there on the topic. Give this book a chance. I think you'll be happy with it.