Design Patterns VS public-apis

2. Java Design Patterns This repository showcases a collection of design patterns implemented in Java, making it a useful resource for learning how to apply design patterns in your projects. https://github.com/iluwatar/java-design-patterns

After that, more practice, and then Design Patterns (as in the famous book of the "Gang of Four": "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object Oriented Software"). Here I'd recommend "Head First: Design Patterns" and Java Design Patterns as well as Refactoring Guru (the sites are more reference than course).

For Design Patterns - any resource recommendation that misses Java Design Patterns and Refactoring Guru (also for Refactoring) as well as *Head First: Design Patterns, has failed.

A massive list of design patterns and how they could be implemented (in Java) can be found here.

https://java-design-patterns.com/ has example code for things like object pools that can help with memory management.

Sidenote: I would not really use the GoF Design Patterns book anymore. Too dry. I would use "Head First: Design Patterns" - much more modern, much easier to read, or Refactoring Guru or Java Design Patterns (uses Java, but again, only for illustrations).

Also: https://java-design-patterns.com and https://refactoring.guru/design-patterns

Use either Java Design Patterns or Refactoring Guru. Both resources are far higher quality than yours.

Java Design Patterns

Java Design Patterns - IMO one of the most accessible sites with very easy explanations

For inspirations on what type of agents I should build, I turned to the Public APIs GitHub repository which has a curated lists of free APIs. I narrowed my search for an API that does not require sign-up or an API key and returns useful information. I ultimately decided to use the Free Currency Exchange Rates API, which seemed promising upon some basic testing.

✅ public-apis/public-apis : https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis

Public-Apis Github Repo — A list of free public APIs.

Interesting thread at https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/issues/3104

Use curl to access a free public API and get a random joke, cat fact, or whatever.

I remember the forking of https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis and the long git issue discussions. The company owning the repository stopped maintaining it but didn't give up control either. Over the years you've put in a lot of work in publicapis.dev and that is much appreciated.

Also, that isn't really a list of "contributors", but of "organisations with the most stars". Those are different things.

For example "public-apis"[1] didn't "contribute" anything as that's not a person, and looking at GitHub[2] there are a bunch of substantial contributors (the person who created the organisation/repo only has 12 commits by the way);

[1]: https://opensource-heroes.com/o/public-apis

[2]: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis/graphs/contributo...