Erich Gamma

Erich Gamma
Born	(1961-03-13) March 13, 1961 Zürich
Citizenship	Swiss
Fields	Software engineering
Alma mater	University of Zurich
Known for	Design Patterns, JUnit, Eclipse, Visual Studio Online "Monaco", Visual Studio Code

Erich Gamma (born 1961 in Zürich) is a Swiss computer scientist and co-author of the influential software engineering textbook, Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. He co-wrote the JUnit software testing framework with Kent Beck and led the design of the Eclipse platform's Java Development Tools (JDT). He also worked on the IBM Rational Jazz project.

He joined the Microsoft Visual Studio team in 2011 and leads a development lab in Zürich, Switzerland that has developed the "Monaco" suite of components for browser-based development, found in products such as Visual Studio Online, Visual Studio Code, Azure Mobile Services, Azure Web Sites, and the Office 365 Development tools.

Interviews and presentations

In an interview in 2005, Erich Gamma explained:

• I think patterns as a whole can help people learn object-oriented thinking: how you can leverage polymorphism, design for composition, delegation, balance responsibilities, and provide pluggable behavior. Patterns go beyond applying objects to some graphical shape example, with a shape class hierarchy and some polymorphic draw method. You really learn about polymorphism when you've understood the patterns. So patterns are good for learning OO and design in general.

Written

• Erich Gamma on Flexibility and Reuse
• Design Principles from Design Patterns
• Patterns and Practice
• Eclipse's Culture of Shipping

Audio

• Erich Gamma on Patterns, JUnit, Eclipse and Jazz (at Software Engineering Radio)

Video

• Keynote by Erich Gamma from QCon London 2008
• Interview with Erich Gamma from QCon London 2008
• Erich Gamma introduces us to Visual Studio Online integrated with the Windows Azure Portal - Part 1
• Erich Gamma introduces us to Visual Studio Online integrated with the Windows Azure Portal - Part 2
• Erich Gamma introduces us to Visual Studio Online integrated with the Windows Azure Portal - Part 3
• Building a Large Scale JavaScript Application in TypeScript from Microsoft Build 2014
• Developer Keynote : Massive.js - Surviving Large Scale JavaScript from Microsoft TechDays 2014 - The Netherlands
• Visual Studio Code: A Deep Dive on the Redefined Code Editor for OS X, Linux and Windows from //Build 2015

See also

• object-oriented programming (OOP)
• polymorphism (computer science)
• composition
• delegation
• class hierarchy
• design patterns

External links

• Works by Erich Gamma at Open Library