Download or read book Design Patterns Explained written by Alan Shalloway and published by Addison-Wesley Professional. This book was released on 2002 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces the programmer to patterns: how to understand them, how to use them, and then how to implement them into their programs. This book focuses on teaching design patterns instead of giving more specialized patterns to the relatively few.