Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design

Other Advantages to Studying Design Patterns

My experience with development groups working with design patterns is that design patterns helped both individual learning and team development. This occurred because the more junior team members saw that the senior developers who knew design patterns had something of value and these junior members wanted it. This provided motivation for them to learn some of these powerful concepts.

Most design patterns also make software more modifiable. The reason for this is that they are time-tested solutions. Therefore, they have evolved into structures that can handle change more readily than what often first comes to mind as a solution.

Design patterns, when they are taught properly, can be used to greatly ...