Avinash C. Kak

Designing with Objects

Object-Oriented Design Patterns Explained with Stories from Harry Potter

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Produktbeschreibung

With an innovative approach to a vital topic in software development, author Avinash Kak demonstrates the key concepts of object-oriented design. Designing with Objects explains the intricacies of design patterns, like Abstract Factory, Builder, Singleton, Adaptor, Bridge, and others, but it does so with flair. Each chapter brims with examples from Harry Potter stories to comprise a thorough, digestible reference for engineering students and programmers.

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Here is a book that takes the sting out of learning object-oriented design patterns! Using vignettes from the fictional world of Harry Potter, author Avinash C. Kak provides a refreshing alternative to the typically abstract and dry object-oriented design literature.

Designing with Objects is unique. It explains design patterns using the short-story medium instead of sterile examples. It is the third volume in a trilogy by Avinash C. Kak, following Programming with Objects (Wiley, 2003) and Scripting with Objects (Wiley, 2008). Designing with Objects confronts how difficult it is for students to learn complex patterns based on conventional scenarios that they may not be able to relate to. In contrast, it shows that stories from the fictional world of Harry Potter provide highly relatable and engaging models. After explaining core notions in a pattern and its typical use in real-world applications, each chapter shows how a pattern can be mapped to a Harry Potter story. The next step is an explanation of the pattern through its Java implementation. The following patterns appear in three sections: Abstract Factory, Builder, Factory Method, Prototype, and Singleton; Adapter, Bridge, Composite, Decorator, Facade, Flyweight, and Proxy; and the Chain of Responsibility, Command, Interpreter, Iterator, Mediator, Memento, Observer, State, Strategy, Template Method, and Visitor. For readers' use, Java code for each pattern is included in the book's companion website.

All code examples in the book are available for download on a companion website with resources for readers and instructors.
A refreshing alternative to the abstract and dry explanations of the object-oriented design patterns in much of the existing literature on the subject.
In 24 chapters, Designing with Objects explains well-known design patterns by relating them to stories from the fictional Harry Potter series

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 910g
• ISBN-13: 9781118581209
• ISBN-10: 1118581202
• Artikelnr.: 40189264

Autorenporträt

Avinash C. Kak is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Purdue University. His areas of interest include software engineering, computer and network security, sensor networks, and computer vision (especially with camera networks). Professor Kak has been awarded numerous Best Teacher of the Year awards at Purdue University. He is the author of Scripting with Objects and Programming with Objects, both published by Wiley.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE xiv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xix 1 Why Learn Design Patterns and Why Do So
with Help from Harry Potter? 1 I CREATIONAL PATTERNS 19 2 Abstract Factory
21 3 Builder 38 4 Factory Method 59 5 Prototype 73 6 Singleton 90 II
STRUCTURAL PATTERNS 99 7 Adapter 101 8 Bridge 122 9 Composite 142 10
Decorator 161 11 Facade 175 12 Flyweight 212 13 Proxy 230 III BEHAVIORAL
PATTERNS 249 14 Chain of Responsibility 253 15 Command 272 16 Interpreter
290 17 Iterator 321 18 Mediator 353 19 Memento 371 20 Observer 386 21 State
405 22 Strategy 421 23 Template Method 437 24 Visitor 453 REFERENCES 473
INDEX 474