Design Patterns¶

References and books¶

• Source Making is a very nice website gathering design patterns, anti-patterns and refactoring rules
• Wikipedia list of usual design patterns
• Design Pattern explained simply
• Head First Design patterns
• WikiBook design patterns

C++ Patterns and code tricks¶

• Copy constructor for class having abstract class as attribute

  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4507565/problem-with-copy-constructor-with-class-with-polymorphic-pointers

• Secrets of good OO design

  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3758244/secret-to-achieve-good-oo-design
  • Separation of concerns : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_concerns
  • D.R.Y. (Don't Repeat Yourself) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_repeat_yourself
  • YAGNI (you arn't gonna need it) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_aren%27t_gonna_need_it