Junior Programmers should learn design patterns as soon as possible? or nope?
Sometimes when you learn design patterns, you ( junior programmers) may be infected by a disease called “Design Pattern Fever” (my own made up name).
How do you know you are infected? The symptoms are you try to implement every design patterns you ever learned in every aspects of your pograms. One says, junior programmers learning design patterns akin to monkeys holding a hand grenade.
Design Patterns are powerful. But there are the downsides still.
For your bed time reading :
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000380.html
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