Comments on: Music and Design Patterns http://www.jakevoytko.com/blog/2008/03/24/music-and-design-patterns/ Ye Olde Computer Science Blogge Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:12:49 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Recent Links Tagged With "designpatterns" - JabberTags http://www.jakevoytko.com/blog/2008/03/24/music-and-design-patterns/comment-page-1/#comment-9847 Recent Links Tagged With "designpatterns" - JabberTags Wed, 15 Oct 2008 19:34:10 +0000 http://www.jakevoytko.com/blog/2008/03/24/music-and-design-patterns/#comment-9847 [...] public links >> designpatterns Music and Design Patterns : So Jake Says: Saved by Shanlalit on Tue 14-10-2008 Yahoo Design patterns Saved by chr15t14n on Thu 09-10-2008 [...] [...] public links >> designpatterns Music and Design Patterns : So Jake Says: Saved by Shanlalit on Tue 14-10-2008 Yahoo Design patterns Saved by chr15t14n on Thu 09-10-2008 [...]

]]> By: Steve http://www.jakevoytko.com/blog/2008/03/24/music-and-design-patterns/comment-page-1/#comment-6944 Steve Fri, 23 May 2008 21:03:30 +0000 http://www.jakevoytko.com/blog/2008/03/24/music-and-design-patterns/#comment-6944 Awesome, I never thought of design patterns as an analogy to chord progressions. In contrast to the above comment, it makes me look at music a little differently... Awesome, I never thought of design patterns as an analogy to chord progressions. In contrast to the above comment, it makes me look at music a little differently…

]]> By: Matt http://www.jakevoytko.com/blog/2008/03/24/music-and-design-patterns/comment-page-1/#comment-4370 Matt Wed, 26 Mar 2008 17:09:34 +0000 http://www.jakevoytko.com/blog/2008/03/24/music-and-design-patterns/#comment-4370 As someone who's been a musician longer than he's been programming, this actually helps me understand the purpose of design patterns better - thanks! As someone who’s been a musician longer than he’s been programming, this actually helps me understand the purpose of design patterns better – thanks!

]]> By: Mikael Jansson http://www.jakevoytko.com/blog/2008/03/24/music-and-design-patterns/comment-page-1/#comment-4305 Mikael Jansson Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:06:42 +0000 http://www.jakevoytko.com/blog/2008/03/24/music-and-design-patterns/#comment-4305 With regard to newbies: The problem with "inferior" languages and design patterns is that they are being thought as The One True Way in [university] courses. Such as the singleton pattern. Use that, and never ever use a global variable, becuase those are evil. (Paraphrasing the GO/TAGBODY, err- GOTO) Rather, I'd like to see the *reasons* for making certain choices properly explained, such that students understand when a global variable can be used, and when it cannot. You might need a bit of theory, but as a programmer, that shouldn't be a problem. Sure, much of your average programmer's consists of gluing libraries together, but hey, if they were better written, she wouldn't have to do so much work! :) With regard to newbies:

The problem with “inferior” languages and design patterns is that they are being thought as The One True Way in [university] courses. Such as the singleton pattern. Use that, and never ever use a global variable, becuase those are evil. (Paraphrasing the GO/TAGBODY, err- GOTO)

Rather, I’d like to see the *reasons* for making certain choices properly explained, such that students understand when a global variable can be used, and when it cannot. You might need a bit of theory, but as a programmer, that shouldn’t be a problem. Sure, much of your average programmer’s consists of gluing libraries together, but hey, if they were better written, she wouldn’t have to do so much work! :)

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