Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
SIGCSE '02 Proceedings of the 33rd SIGCSE technical symposium on Computer science education
Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
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Holub on Patterns: Learning Design Patterns by Looking at Code
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Teaching design patterns in CS1: a closed laboratory sequence based on the game of life
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Killer Game Programming in Java
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Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
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Proceedings of the 40th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education
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FIE'09 Proceedings of the 39th IEEE international conference on Frontiers in education conference
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Computers & Education
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Decision Support Systems
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We present a computer game case study that can be used to motivate the need for design patterns. Design patterns are often misunderstood, but good examples can motivate students to work at understanding patterns. Computer games are used in many books and online resources to teach programming concepts, but these examples are usually simplified or non-object-oriented. We present a simple game that exhibits functionality found in commercial games (animation, collision detection, etc.) and show how it can be used as a case study for design patterns. Specifically, we illustrate how the state, facade, observer, strategy, and visitor patterns can replace procedural approaches for implenting the logic and animation of game written in Java.