Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.
—Christopher Alexander1
Do you reinvent the wheel each time you write code? Do you have to relearn how to iterate through an array every time you write a program? Do you have to reinvent how to fix a dangling else in every if-statement you write? Do you need to relearn insertion sort or binary search every time ...
