Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson on design patterns - a podcast by OReilly Media

The O’Reilly Programming Podcast: Creating designs that are more flexible and resilient to change.

In this episode of theO’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk withEric FreemanandElisabeth Robson, presenters of the live online training courseDesign Patterns Boot Camp, and co-authors (with Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra) ofHead First Design Patterns, among other books. They are also co-founders ofWickedlySmart, an online learning company for software developers.

Discussion points:

• How to use design patterns, which are solutions that have been repeatedly applied to particular object-oriented problems
• Examples of the types of “non-obvious solutions” that can be achieved through design patterns
• How design patterns can help create a shared vocabulary that can improve teams’ collaborations
• The difference between design patterns and design principles
• WickedlySmart’s projects, including “Game of Life,” which explores the area of cellular automata by building a generative application

Other links:

• Freeman and Robson’s bookHead First HTML and CSS, Second Edition
• The live online training courseIntroduction to JavaScript Programming, presented by Elisabeth Robson
• The landmark “Gang of Four”Design Patternsbook
• TheO’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, October 16-19, 2017 in London
• Thesessions on serverless architecture that will be presented by Mike Robertsat the upcoming O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference

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