From the course: Design Patterns: Creational
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Creational patterns
- [Instructor] The "Gang of Four" catalog describes five Creational Patterns. These patterns are Factory Method, Abstract Factory, Builder, Prototype, and Singleton. Our primary concern is with how each of these design patterns can help solve a specific kind of problem in your design. As we go through the Creational Patterns in this course, we hope that you'll be able to see how they're all related to instantiating objects, but address how to do this in different ways, and so solve different problems. Getting a general sense of Creational Patterns, how they're used to instantiate objects, and how they work is the point of this course. So that when you run into a problem with how best to instantiate objects in your design, you'll already have a good idea of how software designers have tackled these kinds of problems before. The goal of all Creational Patterns is to give us more flexibility in how we create objects,…
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