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Book's notes and samples

Head First - Design Patterns

This is my summary of the "Head First - Design Patterns", by Eric Freeman & Elisabeth Freeman.

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I use it while learning and as quick reference. It is not intended to be an standalone substitution of the book so if you really want to learn the concepts here presented, buy and read the book and use this repository as a reference and guide.

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Contributions: Issues, comments and pull requests are welcome.

Concepts

• Design Patterns
• Design Principles

Chapters

1. Welcome to Design Patterns;
2. Keeping your Objects in the know;
3. Decorating Objects;
4. Baking with OO Goodness
5. One of a Kind Objects
6. Encapsulating Invocation
7. Being Adaptive
8. Encapsulating Algorithms
9. Well-Managed Collections
10. The State of Things
11. Controlling Object Access

Book's samples (my interpretation)

• Duck Behavior
• Weather Monitoring application
• Starbuzz Coffee
• Java I/O Decorator
• Pizza Store
• Home automation
• Duck Adapter
• Home Theater Facade
• Caffeine Beverage With Hook
• Duck sorting
• Iterator Pattern and Composite Pattern
• Gumball Machine