C# Design Patterns: A Tutorial

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C# Design Patterns: A Tutorial

by James W. Cooper
List Price: $44.99
Our Price: $38.24
ISBN: 0201844532
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (17 September, 2002)
Edition: Paperback
Sales Rank: 85,098
Average Customer Rating: 2.81 out of 5


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Rating: 2 out of 5


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Nearly impossible to finish
I personally found this a poor tutorial on design patterns and C#. The examples the author used were often contrived and reeked of needless complexity. The tutorial on C# was brief, incomplete and unnecessary (leave the task of teaching C# to a book of it's own). The code seemed to be ported from another language instead of being written with C# in mind (for example the use of a getName() method instead of using a Name property). If your looking for a tutorial on design patterns check out Robert Martin's latest book on Agile Software Development. It doesn't use C#, but it covers the classic GOF design patterns (plus a few others), explores XP programming and (in my opinion most importantly) covers principles fundamental to object oriented programming and design.

Rating: 4 out of 5


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lahtedah
not a bad book but...your editors should have caught the problem in chapter 9. The use of undefined terms is always a curse to any book. The terms "heat" and "seeded" are not defined. Maybe the author thought it was cute to use some terms from what his children were participating in. This set of terms slows down the reading process because the reader has to second guess the author. The author seems to be trying to teach but this chapter is ill-advised. I call this "lahtedah". The author listed Hawaii as one of his cities page xx. This is more "lahtedah". Too much name dropping and kissing the art of the famous people associated with his subject. The GOF wrote a book that was very poorly written but nevertheless led many to worship the book. The world of sheep...know what to kiss and when indeed. The best authors are Stephen Prata and Ivor Horton who write 100% teaching and 0% lahtedah.

Rating: 1 out of 5


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Pathetic
Having suffered through the book to the end, I feel compelled to say what a pathetic disappointment.

From the first few chapters it was amazingly clear that the author not only didn't have a firm grasp of C# but had almost entirely misunderstood .Net as well.

Intermixed amongst some pathetically poor examples was a combination of editorial errors, mistakes and outright misinformation...I seriously hope noone who has read this book has taken it as an example of how to code, let alone code one of the GoF patterns in managed code.

Even the descriptions of the patterns left much to be desired with even one of the simplest patterns, the Singleton not accurately represented.

There is 1 saving grace ... it has a nice title :)


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