Seeing as I have the freedom to code in lisp, etc., much of Design Patterns may be of questionable value. However, knowing my own weaknesses writing code (every

Seeing as I have the freedom to code in lisp, etc., much of Design Patterns may be of questionable value. However, knowing my own weaknesses writing code (every piece of code I have written is terrible), and my relative newness to programming (I've been doing this on and off for 7 years, but rarely seriously), Refactoring seems like it may be of value.