Any Reviews about the New Head First Design Patterns book?

[Jason Askew]

It has been more than a couple of weeks since the Head First Design patterns book was released, but nothing much has been talked about the book in this forum or anywhere else? Do any of you folks who have read the book have any good comments about that book? Are the examples in the book based on Swing like other Java Design pattern books? I hope it is not. . I have placed an order for that book from Amazon and it should reach me in another week or so. Elisabeth if you are listening, please comment.

[Rick Portugal]

I bought it yesterday so I'm only up to page 29. So far it is excellent! I learned a lot in just those few pages.

This is the first "Head First" book that I have seen. It is a very different kind of book. Very silly, yet thought-provoking. I really like it.

The section I read talked about the Strategy Pattern. I then referenced back to my Gang of Four Design Patterns book and read about the Strategy Pattern. Both books say essentially the same thing, but I would never have understood it if I had read just the GoF book.

[Elisabeth Robson]

It has been more than a couple of weeks since the Head First Design patterns book was released, but nothing much has been talked about the book in this forum or anywhere else? Do any of you folks who have read the book have any good comments about that book? Are the examples in the book based on Swing like other Java Design pattern books? I hope it is not. . I have placed an order for that book from Amazon and it should reach me in another week or so. Elisabeth if you are listening, please comment.

Hi Jason,
There are a few reviews on Amazon.com, and hopefully there will be more reviews posted there and also on Javaranch in the coming weeks.

The examples in the book are not Swing based, with a couple of exceptions. We tried to keep the examples as simple as possible. The MVC is the big Swing example of course, because we need a "view", but we also did a web-based MVC example using a JSP/HTML page as the "view".

I hope this helps! Let me know if you have any other questions. Also check out Chapter 3, which has been posted to the O'Reilly site to get an sense of the examples in that chapter.

Elisabeth

[Elisabeth Robson]

Hi Jason,
Just an update - there's a review posted on the Bunkhouse Porch of Head First Design Patterns.

Elisabeth