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Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part I. Objects

• Guideline 1: Design objects for people, not for computers.
• Guideline 2: Think of objects as machines.
• Guideline 3: Understand the kinship between objects and state machines.
• Guideline 4: See objects as bundles of behavior, not bundles of data.
• Guideline 5: Learn to juggle state, behavior, and identity.
• Guideline 6: Design Experts that use their state to decide how to behave.
• Guideline 7: Design Messengers when you don't know the behavior.
• Guideline 8: Design Performers when you need pluggable nuggets of behavior.
• Guideline 9: Design Values when identity doesn't matter.
• Guideline 10: Keep Immutability in your shirt pocket.
• Guideline 11: Design objects that can defend themselves.

Part II. APIs

Index
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