Design Patterns in Parasitic Inheritance Object Oriented JavaScript

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Examples of Software Design Patterns coded as Parasitic Inheritance Object Oriented JavaScript

Douglas Crockford has a series of informative videos on Parasitic Inheritance Object Oriented Javascript at Yahoo's Developer site. This set of videos was instrumental in describing a more object oriented method of implementing software with JavaScript. The information below takes the next step, and describes how to implement Software Design Patterns coded as Parasitic Inheritance Object Oriented JavaScript.

The list of Software Design Patterns in this series was seqentially implemented from the list described in the O'Reilly Book "Head First Design Patterns" ISBN-13: 978-0-596-00712-6.

To fully follow the approach of learning the concepts of this information you should:

  1. Purchase the Head First Design Patterns book.
  2. Download the javascript_designpatterns.zip file from this site.
  3. Review the JavaScript videos produced by Yahoo! and Douglas Crockford related to the topic.
  4. Start reading the Design Patterns book.
  5. Leverage the JavaScript code included in the zip file to learn to apply the pattern in Parasitic Inheritance Object Oriented JavaScript.
  6. Applying those patterns to your real world software solutions.

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