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I read about them and tried to apply them.
That's backward and didn't produce anything good.
I started to understand them by doing it the other way around:
- Coding, solving problems.
- Reading other people's sources.
- Then reinventing half a terrible design pattern.
- Later on, looking at a book: "ohhh, that's what I tried to do" or "ohhh, hence the snippet in that source".
- Now I can discuss with people about the pattern and name my code entities according to that.
Design patterns are a communication tool.
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I read about them and tried to apply them.
That's backward and didn't produce anything good.
I started to understand them by doing it the other way around:
- Coding, solving problems.
- Reading other people's sources.
- Then reinventing half a terrible design pattern.
- Later on, looking at a book: "ohhh, that's what I tried to do" or "ohhh, hence the snippet in that source".
- Now I can discuss with people about the pattern and name my code entities according to that.
Design patterns are a communication tool.