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Java Program Design: Principles, Polymorphism, and Patterns
Get a grounding in polymorphism and other fundamental aspects of object-oriented program design and implementation, and learn a subset of design patterns that any practicing Java professional simply must know in today’s job climate.
Java Program Design presents program design principles to help practicing programmers up their game and remain relevant in the face of changing trends and an evolving language. The book enhances the traditional design patterns with Java's new functional programming features, such as functional interfaces and lambda expressions. The result is a fresh treatment of design patterns that expands their power and applicability, and reflects current best practice.
The book examines some well-designed classes from the Java class library, using them to illustrate the various object-oriented principles and patterns under discussion. Not only does this approach provide good, practical examples, but you will learn useful library classes you might not otherwise know about.
The design of a simplified banking program is introduced in chapter 1 in a non-object-oriented incarnation and the example is carried through all chapters. You can see the object orientation develop as various design principles are progressively applied throughout the book to produce a refined, fully object-oriented version of the program in the final chapter.
What You'll Learn
Who This Book Is For
Java programmers who are comfortable writing non-object-oriented code and want a guided immersion into the world of object-oriented Java, and intermediate programmers interested in strengthening their foundational knowledge and taking their object-oriented skills to the next level. Even advanced programmers will discover interesting examples and insights in each chapter.
Java Program Design presents program design principles to help practicing programmers up their game and remain relevant in the face of changing trends and an evolving language. The book enhances the traditional design patterns with Java's new functional programming features, such as functional interfaces and lambda expressions. The result is a fresh treatment of design patterns that expands their power and applicability, and reflects current best practice.
The book examines some well-designed classes from the Java class library, using them to illustrate the various object-oriented principles and patterns under discussion. Not only does this approach provide good, practical examples, but you will learn useful library classes you might not otherwise know about.
The design of a simplified banking program is introduced in chapter 1 in a non-object-oriented incarnation and the example is carried through all chapters. You can see the object orientation develop as various design principles are progressively applied throughout the book to produce a refined, fully object-oriented version of the program in the final chapter.
What You'll Learn
Who This Book Is For
Java programmers who are comfortable writing non-object-oriented code and want a guided immersion into the world of object-oriented Java, and intermediate programmers interested in strengthening their foundational knowledge and taking their object-oriented skills to the next level. Even advanced programmers will discover interesting examples and insights in each chapter.
473 pages, Paperback
Published December 9, 2018
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September 11, 2024
I have read "Java Program Design" by Edward Sciore during studying an undergraduate course in Java OOP. It was not in the list of recommended books, and I selected it due to an availability.
Advantages: The book is a solid introduction to OOP principles and is written in a good academic manner. The book uses the same example (banking app) and the author adds new features and refactors the app according to new concepts introduced. I found this approach much better than a plenty of un-connected code snippets in other sources.
However, there is a number of disadvantages. In my opinion last 2 chapters (observers and MVC) were added just to increase page count. These topics require a separate book and I found that their coverage is not sufficient and misleading.
To sum up, the title is a good supplementary reading for college level OOP course, but should not be used as a single learning material for the topic.
Advantages: The book is a solid introduction to OOP principles and is written in a good academic manner. The book uses the same example (banking app) and the author adds new features and refactors the app according to new concepts introduced. I found this approach much better than a plenty of un-connected code snippets in other sources.
However, there is a number of disadvantages. In my opinion last 2 chapters (observers and MVC) were added just to increase page count. These topics require a separate book and I found that their coverage is not sufficient and misleading.
To sum up, the title is a good supplementary reading for college level OOP course, but should not be used as a single learning material for the topic.
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