/prog/ - Read HFDP

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-11 18:33

Hey /prog/,

The project manager at my work recommended that I read Head First Design Patterns.
Should I take him up on it, or should I shove a cudder down his throat and tell him to read SICP?

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-11 19:38

http://norvig.com/design-patterns/

Remember, dumb people don't see the truth in front of them.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-11 21:24

>>1
>>2
Back to your ^{Abstract^Decorator}Cubicle_FactoryFactory, ``please"!

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-11 22:28

both are wonderful books bro

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-12 1:50

HFDP got me laid!

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-12 8:02

>>1

Comparing Design Patterns to SICP means you haven't understood them yet. Go read them up.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-12 9:29

>>3

Awww, trying to degrade design patterns and yet not a single argument against them. Back to /b/, ``please"!

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-12 11:42

>>7
Awww, code monkey trying to defend OBJECKTZ XD and yet not a single argument supporting them. Back to Reddit, ``please"!

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-12 13:32

>>8

Here's a single argument for you: design patterns establish a common language amongst developers. So when talking to fellow developers at work, instead of having to describe problems in tedious explanations (i.e. "I got these objects with properties X and behaviour Y doing Z, while interacting with U, ..." and so on), you can get straight to the point. Software development in a team requires a lot of communication. Design patterns help you avoid describing the reinvention of the wheel all the time to your peers. Come to think of it, a basement dwelling hobby coder like yourself has no need for design patterns.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-12 13:47

>>9
It takes one to know one. Now please tell us what you do for a living.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-12 13:53

>>9
fellow developers at work
Back to Reddit, ^``please"!

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-12 18:25

A design pattern is the compulsive code duplication in less capable languages. Read what Norvig wrote.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-12 19:17

And then you get hired to do LabVIEW, and cry yourself to sleep at night.

Name: Anonymous 2012-02-12 21:39

>>12
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AreDesignPatternsMissingLanguageFeatures

Read HFDP

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