CHAPTER 4

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Design Patterns

A design pattern in programming is the equivalent of a recipe in cooking. Can you make chocolate chip cookies without following a recipe? Of course, you can. However, you will be investing a lot of time and effort into trying to solve an issue that’s already been solved. You will basically reinvent the wheel, we mean, the cookie.

Not only do design patterns assist developers in solving common problems when developing software, they also establish a ubiquitous language to use when discussing a particular implementation. Design patterns are written in such a way that there are universal terms associated with the implementation ...

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