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Re: LEGO design patterns... you know, there's a book in that, I'm sure of it!
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Mon, 23 Jun 2003 20:52:28 GMT
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In lugnet.technic, Mark Tarrabain wrote:
Larry Pieniazek wrote:
I was gonna mention Fred Martin, but then you did...

If someone was to want to do such a thing (and it would be very nifty if someone
did!) his stuff would provide one starting point. Another starting point would
be some of the SNOT presentations given at BrickFest and BricksWest...

Also, Fred Martin's stuff is static.... I was thinking of something
dynamic, where new design patterns could be added all the time, as long
as people were submitting them.

Nod. Those were mentioned by me as sources or seeds for such a dynamic
repository rather than as an end state.


One of the important things about documenting LEGO design patterns would
be knowing not only how to build it (or how to build one or two
particular implementations of it, since many design patterns can be
built a multitude of ways), but also a good description of how or why it
works the way it does, as well as showing an example or two of
circumstances under which that design pattern could be exploited.

WHY is key in my book. Else it's just being clever for cleverness's sake. As in
the software Design Patterns you reference, which include applicability notes.

(when being decorative and fanciful there is nothing wrong with being clever for
cleverness's sake mind you...)

When Suz gave her Constructopedia talk at a previous BrickFest, this was what I
thought she was getting at, before hearing her talk... (she's actually thinking
of something related but also neat, which I would leave to her to discuss)



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  Re: LEGO design patterns... you know, there's a book in that, I'm sure of it!
 
(...) A link to an HTML version of Fred's original article: (URL) those who may not be familiar with it. (...) I'm wondering about the first part of your statement Larry. Unless I'm misunderstanding... isn't the 'why' so that you can share knowledge (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic)

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  Re: LEGO design patterns... you know, there's a book in that, I'm sure of it!
 
(...) Also, Fred Martin's stuff is static.... I was thinking of something dynamic, where new design patterns could be added all the time, as long as people were submitting them. One of the important things about documenting LEGO design patterns (...) (21 years ago, 23-Jun-03, to lugnet.technic)

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