Textbook

Software Design: From Programming to Architecture

ISBN: 978-0-471-20459-6

Paperback

576 pages

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Various design patterns, with detailed explanations, provide essential tools for academic and professional growth.
Examples of how to apply all the design patterns covered, with complete Java code for most examples.
Chapters on component technology motivate readers with highly engaging topics, such as JavaBeans.
Includes an extensive discussion of UML (Unified Modeling Language), with many UML samples and exercises.
Reviews the goals and objectives of good software design.
Provides chapters on C# and .NET (The book's main language is Java, but the author includes an overview of C# to show the application of Component technology in .NET).
Includes an introductory chapter on software process.
Web-based "starter" code for many of the exercises enables readers to learn concepts hands-on, without having to start every programming assignment from scratch.