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Programmers make hundreds of decisions a day. Occasionally they make large-scale decisions like those covered by Design Patterns. Far more frequently they make small-scale decisions--choosing names, organizing code logically, dividing programs into coherent parts. The cumulative effect of these hour-by-hour, minute-by-minute decisions is as significant as the effect of the design decisions in making code clear, flexible, and robust. This book is a catalog of the frequent decisions programmers make and the approaches to these decisions that result in code that communicates clearly. Programmers applying Implementation Patterns achieve code that is consistent, easy to read, and easy to modify. It sets out the "bag of tricks" common to excellent programmers in Java and similar languages. Implementation Patterns will appeal to programmers wishing to improve their individual practice, teams finding a common style, and language designers looking for abstractions to add to the next generation of programming languages. The days development teams are bigger, more spread out, and frequently forced to work with legacy applications. Now more than ever clear, communicative code is essential.

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews   7 of 7 people found the following review helpful: Nearly a great book, 17 Nov 2007 By  Paul Richard Keeble "Professional Java Developer" (London, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews    The whole premise of this book is to help the reader understand and improve the development choices they make on a second by second basis. This is not a book about guidelines but rather explaining why a variable name is better named one way or the other. All of this is for the very valuable goal of making the code easier to read for a future maintainer. While the idea itself is brilliant the book itself feels very disjointed. The choices are presented entirely in text format and the density of the information is very high. This makes for a potentially very valuable reference book, but it is equally hard to read. Its not that the book is terse but rather that the level of explanation is not good enough and the sections either waffle or are so rich in things unsaid its hard to understand the reasoning. If you are new to programming Java then this book may well introduce the low level patterns a lot of the old hands are used to, all be it you'll need to read this one a few times for any of it to sink in. For the old hands it feels like an abstract view of everything you have been doing for a decade and while there may be new things in there, its going to be hard to spot them.  Comment | Permalink | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this) › See all customer reviews...		Search Customer Reviews Only search this product's reviews