Talk:Design Patterns

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Hmmm, A couple of thoughts on this entry: 1)shouldn't, perhaps, the 'Design Patterns' page be about the concept of design patterns, with a reference to the Gang of Four book of the same title as one of the primary works on the subject? There is much more to say about design patterns than appears in the GOF book, and there are other books on the subject. 2)Does listing a books table of contents count as plagerism?


Agreed. There's already Design pattern (computer science) for the concept in general -- so if this article is to be about the book, it should bear the name of the book. -- Tarquin 19:29 Sep 22, 2002 (UTC)

So, who's going to do it? RodrigoBelo 23:16 Nov 5, 2002 (UTC)


Agreed

Contents

[edit] Design Patterns CD

the usefull resource for this book is a CD version - maybe this should also be put somewhere on this page?

Gamma, Erich, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides (1997). Design Patterns CD. ISBN 0201634988.

[edit] Year of publication?

At the bottom it says books from 1994, but is this correct? I would expect a line like: The book was first published in 19xx, with a much improved second edition in 19xx ...

No, this is the correct version. We're still using it as a Textbook. The book basically is the bible of Design Patterns.

[edit] gang of four link

What IS this "gang of four" -thing anyway? Sounds kinda stupid to me... like they had written this wikipedia article --sigs

small note: i clicked on the gang of four wikilink and reached another gang of four (political meaning), i changed it to point to gang of four (software), and then i saw it redirects me to here (design patterns). i don't know what is the convention on this case, but i guess that the old state (linking to a diffrent gang of four) is not a good idea, and redirecting to the same page is also not a good idea (it's correct, but it looks bad). so mean while i'm turning the link down.

Hmm. It somehow was relinked to the political group again, possibly by accident. I've removed the link again as the disambiguated page redirects here. 69.3.185.246 05:28, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

Ekta: The contents are really good, I found more valid contents here than any of the design sites I know of. Congratulations to the publisher of this information and keep it up!!

Iceman: I believe the "Gang of Four" term is a reference to the "Gang of Three". This was a term given to 3 prominent leaders in the Chinese Communist government.

anon: I'm removing the link, again it's referring to the Chinese politics. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.186.8.12 (talk) 16:50, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] suggest removing link to Microsoft Patterns and Practices

Possibly this link makes sense on the more general Design pattern (Computer Science) page, but I'm not sure it belongs here. Any opinions about my possibly removing it from here?Harborsparrow 21:33, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

Be bold! Babomb 22:06, 27 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] link to online book

I have restored the link Design Patterns CD: Elements of Re-usable Object-Oriented Software The entire book online, updated by the authors for CD. with apologies to the anon. user who deleted it. If they have published the book online, it is not illegal to link to it; it would only be illegal to duplicate the material itself (which we have not).Harborsparrow 15:36, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

Hi Harborsparrow. AFAIK the authors didn't publish the book online. The book is sold on a CD (ISBN 0201634988), I had one some years ago. The linked site seems to be a copy of the CD, put there by someone in Romania. Yes, a link to that page isn't illegal, but I had the impression that links to unauthorized content is discouraged in the Wikipedia as much as links to warez sites. That is why I removed the link, even though it is a useful resource to have the book online. --213.209.110.130 09:49, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
Yikes! I see now that it is from Romania. Thanks for the clarification; I have removed the link again.