Thinking in Patterns: Download the First Version

RichMeraz writes "Bruce Eckel has posted his first incarnation of Thinking in Patterns with Python on his website. What a wonderful Christmas present." Make sure to check the list of mirrors before downloading. As Eckel says, "This should whet your appetite to read Design Patterns " (or reread it)... classic book, I figure it can't hurt to refresh my memory once a year, and holidays seem like a good time to think in the abstract...

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[javaaddikt]

If you've been reading c.l.python for the past month or so, you've been getting a bit of a preview to his work. He's been putting up little pieces of code which are pretty cool and getting advice from the roundtable.

Re:Design Patterns are abstract?

[Greyfox]

Design patterns alone are not a magic bullet any more than object oriented programming is, or flowcharting or any of the other advances in this industry that were hyped as the magic bullet.

Nonetheless, programmers often have to solve very similar problems with very similar structures. Design patterns allow us to categorize those problems and structures in a very efficient way. Can they be abused? Absolutely. That doesn't mean you should dismiss the entire dicipline out of hand. I've also found that bad programmers are much less likely to be aware of patterns, as they don't tend to keep up with their profession as well as the good programmers do.