Structural patterns

Structural patterns are patterns that describe how objects should relate to each other so that they can work together to achieve a common goal. They help us lower our coupling by suggesting an easy and clear way to break down a problem into related parts and they help raise our cohesion by giving us a predefined way that those components will fit together.

This is like a sports team defining specific roles for each person on the field so that they can play together better as a whole.

Composite

The first structural pattern we are going to look at is called the composite pattern. The concept of this pattern is that you have a single object that can be broken down into a collection of objects just like itself. This is like the organization ...

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