Abstract:Kent comes clean. I'd never tried to explain patterns in print before, not at any length. This was a bit of an experiment for me. Looking at it now I'm a bit disappointed, because the presentation vio...Kent comes clean. I'd never tried to explain patterns in print before, not at any length. This was a bit of an experiment for me. Looking at it now I'm a bit disappointed, because the presentation violates one of my cardinal rules of teaching—always go from concrete to abstract. Were I writing this again, I would take some disguised pattern I had presented earlier and present it both in idiom format and pattern format. Oh well…One thing I like about the column is the emphasis on communication. Looking at the earlier columns, I'm surprised at how little I said about the importance of communicating through code. I'm sure I understood how important communication is, but I hadn't written about it since the early HOOPLA! articles.Read More
Publication Year: 2010
Publication Date: 2010-08-06
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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