The Worst Book on .NET Patterns
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This week I finished reading .NET Patterns: Architecture, Design, and Process by Christian Thilmany. To be more precise, I didn't finish it. I couldn't. I was compelled to throw it away. It's that bad.
First of all, the title is off the wall. The author mentions a number of common patterns and then tries to provide weird implementations thereof. All he really does is describe one particular web application (allegedly a working one) and list its implementation. The ideas are so fragmented that it's almost impossible to glue them back together.
With typographical errors a-plenty and garbled code it's nearly impossible to follow the samples. I've never seen code that received no formatting at all!
The reason I bother writing this is to forewarn you. Don't waste your money on this book. I'm surprised a book of this quality wasn't published by Wrox.
Has anyone managed to read through this masterpiece and stay awake?
4 comments
Michael O'Brien
on November 23, 2004
Couldn't agree more! One of the worst .NET books I've read!
Tom Gajewski
on March 7, 2005
I guess you guys would like another El-gamma in new "cover" ??! Agreed that word "patterns" should be replaced with "practices", agreed some of the ideas are very original but ... eventually the book brings lots of new, fresh insights into .NET programming. I would suggest it every explorer ... not a follower!
So Long Java...
on February 4, 2006
I rate myself as the worst coder of them all but this is a good book with scattered pratices for .net and your application requirements, what do you expect a complete coded solution on paper? I thought as a developer that was part of the job. Well hey if this book is so bad write one yourself and remember to use a spellchecker so you don't get slated on the net for sloppy work.
Give it a try, it's ok if sloppy...Bit like ur code?
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Feddy
on November 19, 2004
Thanks for the warning.
Good site