I liked this one http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Explained-Perspective-Object-Oriented/dp/0321247140/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3/105-3749773-5801219?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193579634&sr=1-3 better than Head First Design Patterns.

This one is on my shelf http://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Steven-John-Metsker/dp/0321126971/ref=sr_1_5/105-3749773-5801219?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1193579634&sr=1-5 but I haven't gotten to it yet.


>To add to your list:
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>A great detailed book on C# (I've read about half of it so far, and just from a couple examples of things that might not work how you expect, that will keep you debugging for hours, this book is well worth it):
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>http://www.amazon.com/CLR-via-Second-Pro-Developer/dp/0735621632/ref=pd_sim_dbs_b_shvl_title_5/103-2162299-1815818
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>The design pattern book you pointed out looks very promising. If someone wants a very good start. This book is in Java, but the examples can be very easily ported to C#. I know in the last codecamp I was at, they used this book for a design pattern session:
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>http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b/103-2162299-1815818?initialSearch=1&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=headfirst+design+patterns
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