Software Development, Design, and Coding: With Patterns, Debugging, Unit Testing, and Refactoring

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J. F. Dooley, V. A. KazakovaSoftware Development, Design, and Codinghttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0285-0_13

13. Design Patterns

John F. Dooley¹   and Vera A. Kazakova²

(1)

Galesburg, IL, USA

(2)

Columbia, MD, USA

 

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 ...