Design Patterns. Elements of Reusable Object-oriented Software

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1. octo-andreroJun 2024
   The Knuth is great, for sure, and I encourage any efforts to build strong basement of fundamental knowledge. Still I would suggest you to change the focus. As a software engineer most of the time you won't implement complex generic algorithms. You will use them from libraries. These books will help you learn more about other important problems that software engineers face everyday:

   - Design patterns: Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides

   - Test Driven Development by Kent Beck

   - Code Complete (2) by Steve McConnell

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2. protomokApr 2018
   ~ Books => I have most in digital and physical copies ~

   - The C Programming Language (2nd edition) - Brian Kerningham / Denis Ritchie

   - The C++ Programming Language (4th edition which discuss C++11) - Stroustrup

   - Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - GoF

   - Effective C++, Effective Modern C++ - Scott Meyers

   ~ Specifications ~

   - C99 draft spec, C++11 draft spec (too cheap to buy official copies!)

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3. caiocOct 2015
   Very specific to OOP : "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides
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4. kushtiJul 2014
   The #1 book is "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software" by Gamma/ Helm / Johnson / Vlissides. It's about imperative programming though, functional/hybrid languages have other design patterns(but "Design Patterns" is #1 anyway).

   + Free Book "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" : http://hackershelf.com/book/54/the-architecture-of-open-sour...

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5. shagieMay 2024
   One certainly doesn't become a senior overnight. However, the GoF book is not a book for fundamentals for a self taught developer.

   I will also point out that the quote that I have and that you've quoted again is from Erich Gamma... of Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides.

   The GoF book on design patterns is a book for how to solve a common set of problems using these common solutions. What it is not is a "use these solutions in every well designed program".

   My read on the OP's question is one of "how to become a junior programmer" - they can read code but don't write it well. The GoF is not the next book on that path. It is a book to read after you've been designing and understand the pains of writing and designing larger pieces of software... but if you're still working on "write something that solves a problem in 200 lines" the GoF will not provide any solutions for those problems. ... And if you do try to apply the GoF to the 200 line long problems you'll have contrived solutions that are a synthetic design that, in the words of Erich Gamma "speculative designs that have flexibility that no one needs. These days software is too complex."

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6. JoeAltmaierDec 2019
   Revisionist history? The seminal work in Design Patterns (coined the term) came out in 1995

   Design Patterns (Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software), Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, 1995]

   Same year Java was invented. Hard to imagine Java inspired it.

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