A simple explanation of common design patterns for non-native English speakers

Question

I am often facing design patterns, and I find most articles explaining them a bit hard to understand, especially since I don't speak English fluently. I would very much appreciate if someone could explain simply and in basic English the following design patterns: Builder, Prototype, Bridge, Composite, Decorator, Facade, Flyweight, Proxy and Observer.

Or if you have any links to good resources, I'm willing to spend the time to try to understand it.

Answer 1

I would recommend taking a look at Head First Design Patterns as it is a very approachable design patterns book.

There are quite a few sample pages on the O'Reilly website so you can get a good idea of what it's like.

Answer 2

I highly, highly, HIGHLY recommend the Gang of Four Book.

It is such a good lookup tool for design patterns, although it may be difficult to read if you're not fluent in English.

Here is a list of the design patterns with examples for PHP, you may want to have a look at this:

http://www.fluffycat.com/PHP-Design-Patterns/

Answer 3

That's a lot to ask in one question. I'd recommend first looking at the Wikipedia articles for each pattern you listed. Builder, Prototype, Bridge, Composite, Decorator, Facade, Flyweight, Proxy and Observer. If there's something specific about one of the patterns that you don't understand after reading one of those articles, you can always come back here and ask a more focused question.

Next I'd recommend a good introductory book on the subject like Head First Design Patterns.

Answer 4

G'day,

The GoF book has been translated into many other languages. In fact the first time I saw it was in French, In fact, Wikipedia says into thirteen other languages.

BTW I also vote for looking at the Head First Design Patterns book.

HTH

cheers,

Answer 5

I would recommend taking a look at Do Factory