What’s a Software Design Pattern?

What type of design pattern does not exist?

• Creational

• Structural

• Mechanical

• Behavioral

Behavioral Design Patterns...

• deals with object creation and initialization, providing guidance about which objects are created for a given situation

• deals with class and object composition, or how to assemble objects and classes into larger structures

• is concerned with communication between objects and how responsibilities are assigned between objects

• restricts object creation for a class to only one instance

Select main benefits of using design patterns

• reusability

• versatility

• code repeatability

• code readability

A creational design pattern deals with object creation and initialization, providing guidance about which objects are created for a given situation.

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A design pattern is a more high-level description of a solution than an algorithm

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You can just find a pattern and copy it into your program and it will work

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