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Pattern Categories and When to Apply Them

This generated surface maps a learner-facing curriculum unit to its canonical source routes.

Curriculum surface​

  • Open learner-facing unit
  • Curriculum path: content/curriculum/foundations/semester-03-software-design/module-04-structural-and-creational-patterns/concepts/cluster-04-pragmatic-pattern-selection/11-pattern-categories-and-when-to-apply-them-primary.md
  • App: foundations
  • Semester: semester-03-software-design
  • Module: module-04-structural-and-creational-patterns
  • Unit kind: concept
  • Curation level: generated_default

Learning objectives​

  • Explain Pattern Categories and When to Apply Them in the language of the current curriculum, not just the source book.
  • Apply Pattern Categories and When to Apply Them to one concrete learner task or example inside this semester.
  • Use design-patterns-gof, head-first-design-patterns as a selective source of truth when the learner-facing explanation is not enough.

Prerequisites​

  • The earlier concept pages and practice tasks in the current module.

Source books​

  • design-patterns-gof
  • head-first-design-patterns

Source routes​

Design Patterns Gof​

  • /books/design-patterns-gof via GoF: 1.5 Organizing the Catalog, GoF: 1.7 How to Select a Design Pattern, GoF: Designing for Change (Part 1), GoF: Designing for Change (Part 2)

Head First Design Patterns​

Supporting curriculum routes​

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External enrichment​

No curated enrichment resources yet.

AI companion modes​

  • Explain simply
  • Socratic tutor
  • Quiz me
  • Challenge my understanding
  • Diagnose my confusion
  • Generate extra practice
  • Revision mode
  • Connect forward / backward

Source-of-truth note​

This teaching unit is learner-facing guidance assembled from multiple canonical book routes. Use the listed source books as the primary conceptual spine for Pattern Categories and When to Apply Them, and treat outside material as supporting enrichment only.