[commanderjroc]

I am not saying a full lecture or something.

But maybe a required reading? People are taking it as a survey course, an introduction, so it would be nice to give a little teaser or something of stuff that is to come later on.

[scarejunba]

Design Patterns in an Intro course to CS? No, and not required reading either. That's a "Practice of Software Engineering" thing.

It's too early.

[emodendroket]

That's another good point; someone barely learning to program is not at the point where they can understand or see the value in design patterns; at best you're going to create a situation where they blindly create design pattern code without understanding why they're doing it.