Software Patterns "primer" available online (fwd)

[Theodore C. Belding]

I don't mean to forward this kind of thing on a regular basis,
but this primer and the related links sound like a good thing to look at if 
you're curious about why I keep mentioning design patterns, or if you're
new to object-oriented programming.
-Ted

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Ted Belding                      <mailto:address@hidden> 
University of Michigan Program for the Study of Complex Systems
<http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~streak/>

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Date: Fri, 2 May 1997 13:55:23 -0500 (CDT)
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Subject: Software Patterns "primer" available online

I believe I have made the final modifications to my "patterns-intro"
paper that tries to give a thorough introduction to "patterns" as they
are known and used within the software patterns community. It is
entitled "Patterns and Software: Essential Concepts & Terminology" and
contains several dozen links to other patterns resources and tutorials
on the WWW. A slightly earlier revision of it was just published in the
May issue of Object Magazine online.

If you have never seen a software pattern or design pattern, or dont
at least have a vague idea of what "patterns" are, then the paper is
probably a bit "too much at once" for you and I would instead recommend
some of the other online patterns intros that the paper provides hyperlinks
to (particularly ones by Doug Lea, Linda Rising, Steve Berczuk, and
Richard Gabriel).

However, if you already have at least a vague notion of what patterns are
(maybe youve seen a few of them and/or heard some significant discussion
about them) then this paper should be a very thorough introduction to
most of the commonly used patterns concepts and terms.

The paper is about 15 pages in length, but is fairly large (75+ Kbytes)
due to the fact that it has an extensive number of hyperlinks. It is
available in both HTML and postscript format (gzipped - no hyperlinks)
from the "Documents" section of my website (the URL is in my email
signature below).

Many thanks go to Jim Coplien, Doug Lea, Mike Beedle, Linda Rising, John
Vlissides, Tim Ottinger, and Desmond D'Souza, and the authors of the POSA
and GoF books for providing me with material and/or comments.

Cheers!
-- 
 Brad Appleton <address@hidden> | http://www.enteract.com/~bradapp/
  "And miles to go before I sleep."   |  2600+ WWW links on CS & Sw-Eng



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