Design patterns (programming)?

[JonTheBaller]

What are design patterns in the context of programming? My professor mentioned we will be learning about them and I was just wondering what they were.

 

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From this site:

Patterns and Pattern Languages are ways to describe best practices, good designs, and capture experience in a way that it is possible for others to reuse this experience.

Some examples:

- Singleton pattern
- MVC pattern