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 EAN: 9780201184624 Edition: 1st edition, 1st printing ISBN: 0201184621 Label: Addison Wesley Longmann, Inc. Manufacturer: Addison Wesley Longmann, Inc. Publication Date: 1998 Publisher: Addison Wesley Longmann, Inc. Studio: Addison Wesley Longmann, Inc. Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Classic work has been tailored and enhanced to address the specific needs of the Smalltalk programmer. Provides efficient solutions to your Smalltalk design problems, ultimately helping you become a better software designer. DLC: Object oriented programming (Computer science) Average Rating:
 Rating: - The essential GOF companionThis isn't a Smalltalk translation of "Design Patterns." Instead, it's a companion to that book. You'll need to read the first one to get the most out of this one. If you have read the first one, you'll find this one is better written and really casts essential light on some of the GOF material. The Smalltalk aspects of this book are really a non-issue (except perhaps showing static-typers how many hoops you don't have to use in Smalltalk). This is required patterns reading. Rating:  - Useful for Java Programmers too.I bought this book because of the unresolved questions I had after spending so many hours exploring the GoF original book. I am an experience C, C++, and Objective C programmer, not a Smalltalk guru at all. And I found the GoF very confusing and intimidating. My current projects these days are written in Java (I miss Objective C). I looked for a book that would cover the pattern catalog in Java because I was really questioning the purpose of some of them in that language. Creating some mechanism ... Read More Rating: - Easier to understand than the original GoFThis book gives you a better understanding of the patterns than in its original version (the GoF one). I am not a SmallTalk programmer but a 9 years C++ one. At work I had to use the GoF book and never liked reading it. In contrast to this, the SmallTalk companion is easy to read and you can understand the patterns within the first few lines of their description. Take the Bridge pattern and compare their discussions in the two books. If you really like the Gof one then buy it. But according to ... Read More Rating: - More than a GOF Companion.I found this an exellent book. The original design patterns book drew its examples from C++ applications. I could see a use for the patterns in C++, but I thought most of them would not have been necessary if the code had been written in Smalltalk. This book did an excellent job of showing how and where the patterns could be used in Smalltalk applications. The authors also extended and clarified many of the pattern so that they were simplier to understand. The book is more than ... Read More Rating: - More than a GOF Companion.I found this an exellent book. The original design patterns book drew its examples from C++ applications. I could see a use for the patterns in C++, but I thought most of them would not have been necessary if the code had been written in Smalltalk. This book did an excellent job of showing how and where the patterns could be used in Smalltalk applications. The authors also extended and clarified many of the pattern so that they were simplier to understand. The book is more than ... Read More 
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