OO programming

Delivery: face to face

Learning activities:

• attending lectures
• participation in discussions
• individual study
• exercises

Attendance: Advised

Teaching methods:

• Lectures

A design pattern is defined as "a proven solution to a recurring problem". In practice a design pattern is a design scheme.

The birth of the "movement" of the patterns is due to the famous book Design Patterns: Elements for reuse of object software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides (1995). Thanks to the success of this work, its four authors became so-called names that the scientific community began shortly to identify them collectively with a nickname: the "Gang of Four" (Gang of Four or Gof). The theme of the pattern is now considered one of the main objectives of the development of object-oriented software engineering. During the course we will analyze in detail the design patterns introduced by GoF.


Some patterns defined in the literature do not work at the design level of the system, so design patterns can not be properly defined, but they will be briefly dealt with in the course

Design Patterns: Elementi per il riuso di software ad oggetti di Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson e John Vlissides, Addison-Wesley (1995).

Head First Design Patterns, di Eric & Elisabeth Freeman, O'Reilly, 2004

Exercises during the course, final exam