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Holub on Patterns
If I can level any complaint against this book, it's probably that the title doesn't properly convey the goodness locked within. Holub on Patterns is short for Allen Holub on Design Patterns. Allen Holub is a long time expert on Design and Design Patterns, so he's the man you want to learn it from. Still, if I could name this book, it would be Object Oriented Design Voodoo. (Note: This is probably why I don't work for Apress or any other publisher.)
The book's subtitle is "Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code." That probably conveys the work's focus a little better and it also gives away one of the book's best features: sensational examples. (These examples are in Java, another area where Holub is a well-known authority, but the concepts taught apply to Object Oriented Programming in any language.)
Titles aside, this book really is the best work I've read on design patterns. If you don't already know, design patterns are the recurring patterns of object-oriented software implementations. Luckily, you don't have to know anything about them to read this book. The author covers many patterns in rich detail from the beginning. Even if you do know your design patterns well, I'll wager Holub still has a trick or two to impress you with.
Holub discusses patterns in their ideal pure form, but much more importantly he shows them as they occur "in the wild," with multiple variations. He covers the downside of each pattern, weights the trade-offs of using them, and even gives a handful of cases where he felt they were impractical. He does all this right in the middle of complex real-world examples so you can see each point he's making. That's actual programming, folks. The good, the bad and the choices we programmers make are well presented, and that's rare in a programming text.
The book opens with two chapters that more or less cover why we need design patterns at all. Did you know getters/setters are bad? Did you know that subclassing is dangerous? If you said No to either question, you need this book and these two chapters in particular will get you up to speed on good OO practices. This section of the book is mostly theory, light on examples.
The next two chapters (covering over 250 pages) make up the heart of the book. Holub examines two examples in exhaustive detail. The first is his implementation of The Game of Life. You've probably implemented that on your TI calculator, but Holub sure didn't. He admits that his implementation is "Toy Code," but it's a robust example that involves eleven design patterns. The second example is production code, a mini database complete with SQL interpreter. This code is also swimming in pattern usage, and Holub gives you the guided tour.
I've already said these examples are great, but that claim begs some elaboration. First, we're talking about hundreds of lines of code in many of these listings. These aren't the usual contrived junk. What's more, one class may be participating in multiple patterns. Making any sense of these examples would be almost impossible if the author wasn't flawless in explaining the key points and always dropping hints about what you need to notice. This isn't light reading. It's work, but the rewards are there and it'll pay off if you really spend the effort to understand how the code works.
Finally, the book closes with an appendix that gives more typical recipe-card style listings of all the design patterns discussed throughout the text. This is a nice reference after you've finished the tricky stuff. If you're new to design patterns, you might start here, before the book throws you into the lion's den with its massive examples.
Just in case I haven't sold you on this title yet, I better mention the gorgeous hard back binding. Brilliant and sexy. How can you beat that?
Holub on Patterns is a very approachable way to learn a lot about design patterns. If you already know how much patterns can improve your object-oriented programming, you'll really enjoy Holub's presentation of the topic. If you don't yet grasp Design Patterns or haven't enjoyed other works on the subject, you'll just have to trust me: You want this book.
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