Design pattern

"Design patterns" redirects here. For the book, see Design Patterns.
This article is about a relatively general design concept. For application for software development, see Software design pattern.

A design pattern is the re-usable form of a solution to a design problem. The idea was introduced by the architect Christopher Alexander[1] and has been adapted for various other disciplines, particularly software engineering.[2]

  1. ^ Alexander, Christopher (1977). A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. Center for Environmental Structure series. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-501919-9. OCLC 3132495.
  2. ^ Gamma, Erich; Helm, Richard; Johnson, Ralph; Vlissides, John (1994). Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley professional computing series. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-63361-2. OCLC 31171684. The "Gang of Four" book.