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How to handle “animated” game where the visual should “animate” instead of abruptly change?
I've been playing around and learning javascript/KineticJS by making some simple games (think like board games).
I have the game model that is relatively logically simple. When a "move" is given to ...
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Context class in Strategy pattern
I'm trying to understand the strategy pattern and asking myself: is the context class must-have or can I leave it out without compromising pattern's purpose ?
I was under the impression I needed some ...
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Liskov substitution and abstract classes / strategy pattern
I'm trying to follow LSP in practical programming. And I wonder if different constructors of subclasses violate it. It would be great to hear an explanation instead of just yes/no. Thanks much!
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would a composite design pattern be useful for group membership?
I'm trying to think about the best way to handle group memberships on a website. People sign up and select checkboxes in a list of interests. Every week we send out interest-themed emails to those ...
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Strategy vs Delegates
Can the Strategy design pattern entirely replace delegates?
In Java, for example, there are no delegates. Is it possible to gain all the features of delegates by using Strategy design pattern?
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Can the Strategy pattern be implemented without significant branching?
The Strategy pattern works well to avoid huge if...else constructs and make it easier to add or replace functionality. However, it still leaves one flaw in my opinion. It seems like in every ...
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Can you point me to a nontrivial strategy pattern implementation?
We are faced implementing a registration workflow with many branches. There are three main flows which in some conditions lead to one another. Each flow has at least four different steps; some steps ...
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Adding more responsibilities to Activities in a flexible way
I am considering how I can add tasks to Android Activities in a flexible way. I can only use implementation inheritance for one thing in Java and I would like to use it, if I use it at all, for ...
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Is it OK to pass the concrete client to a method on the concrete strategy?
When using the strategy pattern, is it good practice to pass this to a method on this.strategy?
I have a strategy interface with one call, TakeAction. The idea is that TakeAction decides which of ...
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Can the strategy pattern be overused?
Example: A file, representing a serialized version of an object, needs to be read and deserialized. It would simple to implement this if we only cared about a single serialization format, but many ...
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Modified Strategy Design Pattern
I've started looking into Design Patterns recently, and one thing I'm coding would suit the Strategy pattern perfectly, except for one small difference.
Essentially, some (but not all) of my ...
