Personally I really liked "Head First: Design Patterns" because it's more about the overarching strategies (e.g. composition vs. inheritance) which design patte

Personally I really liked "Head First: Design Patterns" because it's more about the overarching strategies (e.g. composition vs. inheritance) which design patterns are merely examples of. It was more of a top-down approach - I didn't realize memorize the patterns themselves, but internalized the justifications for them.