> I felt it was a modern followup to the classic Design Patterns... If you’re going to recommend a book, then why not just recommend Design Patterns? That’s a

> I felt it was a modern followup to the classic Design Patterns... If you’re going to recommend a book, then why not just recommend Design Patterns? That’s actually a good book; and, if you read it, you will extract exactly zero value from this one, which gives only the most trivial coverage of a handful of the patterns from the former. /shrug I feel like people who 5 star review this on amazon didn’t read Design Patterns becuase it looked to scary, and liked it because this was cute and simple and easy. ...unfortunately, the reality is that cute simple explanations are usually trivialising the content (as this book does; seriously go read a few game programming gems if you think game programming is as trivial as a singleton...), so given a choice of a universally acclaimed coverage of the topic, and some hand drawn pictures, why the heck would you recommend the latter to anyone other than a student? I don’t get it, and I see no value in the content of this book ...but, I guess different things for different people.