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Best books to learn Design patterns, in order

Design patterns are easy to misread as recipes to apply everywhere, which is how codebases get over-engineered. Read them in order of grounding: first the principles behind good object design, then the creational, structural, and behavioral patterns as named solutions to recurring problems, then critiques and modern context so you know when a pattern is the wrong tool.

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