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Design pattern adoption

Design pattern adoption

- [Speaker] If you're relatively new to design patterns, you may be wondering how mainstream the use of design patterns are. The bottom line is that they're widely accepted and adopted by practitioners. A good indicator for this popularity is the sheer number of publications available out there. Let's do a quick search on amazon.com, type software design patterns. As expected, one of the best sellers is the "Gang of Four" book, by the way, the "Gang of Four" is a nickname referring to the authors of the classic book called "Design Patterns." There is also a book published by Microsoft Press called "Adaptive Code." According to the author, this book is all about sharing the best practices in the world of C# Programming with the microsoft.net framework. You can also see many different flavors of books covering design patterns in various contexts. They tie design patterns to game coding, enterprise application architecture, smartphone apps, web applications, embedded systems, as well as…

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