What Is a Design Pattern and Why Should We Use It?
Introduction 🤔🧠💡 I often found myself asking: What is a design pattern, and why should I use it? Although my professor explained that design patterns make code more readable, cleaner, and easier to maintain, the concept still felt abstract to me. I understood the words, but not the real value behind them. My confusion started to clear after reading a quote by Christopher Alexander , the architect who introduced the idea of design patterns. “Each pattern describes a problem which occurs over and over again in our environment, and then describes the core of the solution to that problem, in such a way that you can use this solution a million times over, without ever doing it the same way twice.” This quote helped me realize that design patterns are not about copying code — they are about reusing ideas and solutions . Who Created Design Patterns? The concept of design patterns was first introduced in 1977 by Christopher Alexander , an architect. He used patterns to describe recurring p...