[chalst]

They're certainly less fashionable than they were 20 years ago, and I'd not expect to see them talked about so much in job ads.

It's a bit odd, to teach a language through design patterns: design patterns are really best-practice workarounds beyond the language where the standard language toolkit doesn't provide an obviously best way of solving a problem. It's a run-before-walk approach.

You might be interested in this story, Design Patterns 15 Years On - http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3655 (link to LtU discussion, which has some other resources).

[HerrmannM]

It was not the best class ever, for sure! That's an interesting link, I never saw that way. Probably because how I learn them too, i.e. a mandatory thing to know.

Now I mostly wonder why/how did they get so big.