A good book for its purpose

This book does a great job of explaining patterns and pointing out benefits and drawbacks to each one. As an aspiring OO developer of business applications though, this books does not provide much guidance. The examples are given for real-time applications like user interfaces for a drawing application, etc. Applying these patterns to a distributed application with a database backend that records everything is a tough leap to make. I give it a high rating because it does its job well, however, I wish it would have addressed a broader scope of application types.

So so

Although this book initiated the now-famous design patterns phenemon,I think we have better alternatives these days.The book has sample codes in C++.

Required reading for your blue belt

Everyone who wants to write OO code needs to read this book. No, let me re-phrase, *must master* this book.