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adamb
Formerly “adambrennan”
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Northern Ireland
 
2011-05-15, 07:39

It was an experiment on the performance implication of using some common GoF patterns. Nothing ground-breaking or overly surprising but somewhat interesting to do.

The thing is, it wasn't until the final year of my course that patterns were introduced in any kind of formal manner, so I think that's the really exciting thing for me about your book. Undoubtedly a lot of students would do things differently with early exposure to patterns. In my experience of teaching people fundamentals of programming it's all about explaining the 'why', and that seems to be missing in a lot of cases. Your notation too sounds very interesting, and with teaching the concepts of design rather than design itself I don't see how this can't work out well for you.
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