From the course: Spring: Design Patterns
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Gang of Four
- [Instructor] Now, we can't have a conversation on design patterns without at least mentioning the Gang of Four. Now who are this Gang of Four? It was four software engineers, computer scientists, that wrote a book that revolutionized how we write code using object-oriented programming. Again, they were computer scientists first and foremost, but they also were authors. And they wrote a book called, "Design Patterns: "Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software." Now this is the book, in my opinion, that changed OOP. It introduced object-oriented programming, both the good and the bad. They didn't sugarcoat anything. They said exactly what was good about it, and all the problems that arose, and then they tried to talk about how to solve some of those problems. They focused on common object-oriented programming concerns, many we take for granted today because of the comments and the changes in the industry based on this book. Now design patterns themselves filled most of the…
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