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Beginner OOP code vs design patterns in Matthias's book?

 
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Welcome Matthias,

If you could explain to us, in what ways techniques in your book bridge the gap between, say, beginner OO code and some more fancy design patterns?
 
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Why do you think there is a gap between beginners' OO code and fancy design patterns? Good OO code will always use patterns, even if the patterns are too simple to have a name, even in a one‑class app. The common or garden OO class is a pattern in its own right, even if nobody calls it a pattern.
In a lot of beginners' apps, we see there is a gap, not between OO and fancy design patterns, but between the code and OO. Too many people are being taught to write procedural code.
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Maybe you meant to ask how far the book goes taking people from the basics of OO to design patterns.
 
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Campbell Ritchie wrote:Why do you think there is a gap between beginners' OO code and fancy design patterns?  



In my humble opinion and experience (which is not big, I'm still a student, which I based upon reading HF Design Patterns and few implementations of patterns from the book), beginner's OO code is not so flexible and resilient on changes of functionalities, while (fancy) DP most certainly are. From that standpoint, and as someone who is at least trying not to write procedural code but an OO code, I was wondering in what degree are guidelines for good OO code in Matthias's book, (resilient to changes), are close to designing classes and interfaces, putting them together if you will, like in some (fancy) DP.

Campbell Ritchie wrote: Good OO code will always use patterns, even if the patterns are too simple to have a name, even in a one‑class app. The common or garden OO class is a pattern in its own right, even if nobody calls it a pattern.


Learn something new. Completely makes sense.

Campbell Ritchie wrote: Maybe you meant to ask how far the book goes taking people from the basics of OO to design patterns.


We could phrase it that way, yes.
 
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Mike Gosling wrote:. . . beginner's OO code is not so flexible and resilient . . . .

No, I wouldn't expect it to be. If you start with plain simple OO, you can add resilience and flexibility later. At least some people do start with OO from the very first line of code. Some people teach procedural code and add OO to that. Some people understand the difference readily and others take ages and ages to make the jump to proper OO.
 
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I find that when developers find out about design patterns, they want to apply them, because they are cool and look interesting/make their code look smart. At least I did this when I first read design pattern books In my book I aim to get back to some of the OO basics and I establish some of the basic ideas that, when you follow them, will eventually lead you to discover the most important design patterns by yourself. I think that's more helpful then starting with the design patterns and only then wondering about what OO programming entails.
 
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