Reading Material

The following are the required textbooks for this course and should be used through-out for reference. All are available online through the campus library.

• Head-First Design Patterns

  • Required Reading:

    • Chapter 3: Decorator

    • Chapter 4: Factory

    • Chapter 5: Singleton

    • Chapter 6: Command

    • Chapter 10: State

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (a.k.a. Gang of Four) by Gamma et al

• C# in a Nutshell

  • Recommended Reading:

    • Chapter 1: Introducing C#

    • Chapter 2: C# Basics

    • Chapter 3: Creating Types

    • Chapter 7: Collections