---
title: "Design Patterns in programming — How and when to use them"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/design-patterns-in-programming-how-and-when-to-use-them--wqzhsued
source_url: https://blog.devgenius.io/design-patterns-in-programming-how-and-when-to-use-them-feaf6ce4aefd
type: article
source: "Dev Genius"
published: 2021-10-04T03:41:34.477Z
updated: 2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z
tags: ["general-programming"]
reading_time: 2
upvotes: 18
comments: 2
language: en
---

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# Design Patterns in programming — How and when to use them

**[Dev Genius](https://daily.dev/sources/devgenius)** · 2 min read · 18 upvotes · 2 comments

## Summary

A good understanding of these design patterns would make it easier to develop more suitable solutions to most problems you’d try to solve as a software engineer. Design patterns are broadly classified into three: Structural, Behavioral, and Creational design patterns. There shouldn’t be a need to ‘box’ yourself to always following a design pattern in a certain way.

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**@je\_saura** · 0 upvotes

> Also, 2 minute reading post? wow

**@mhmtonar1** · 0 upvotes

> good but insufficient

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