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

In this episode of the O’Reilly Programming Podcast, I talk with Eric Freeman and Elisabeth Robson, presenters of the live online training course Design Patterns Boot Camp, and co-authors (with Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra) of Head First Design Patterns, among other books. They are also co-founders of WickedlySmart, 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 book Head First HTML and CSS, Second Edition
The live online training course Introduction to JavaScript Programming, presented by Elisabeth Robson
The landmark “Gang of Four” Design Patterns book
The O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference, October 16-19, 2017 in London
The sessions on serverless architecture that will be presented by Mike Roberts at the upcoming O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference

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