Design Patterns

I'm taking a course on Design Patterns at work, and the lecturer is really good. At one point he was talking about how difficult it was for beginners to get through _the_ definitive book on the subject; Design Patterns. When you read the first two sections, he said, it keeps referring to all the patterns in the rest of the book. But if you skip ahead and try to read some of the pattern descriptions, it's actually structured around what they talk about in the first two sections. If you think about it, he concluded, this book is an example of bi-directional coupling, which is kind of ironic in a design book.

I haven't had such a good class in years. It makes me nostalgic for school. I miss all the sports too. Kendrick just signed up for his work place's badminton team, but I am banned from joining!! Grrrr... Nevertheless, I can still play on their courts, just not during _team_ hours. Sheesh!