> students are able to come up with the "classical" design pattern implementations on their own in a couple hours without prior exposure to them. I think this

> students are able to come up with the "classical" design pattern implementations on their own in a couple hours without prior exposure to them. I think this is even mentioned in the GoF book. The point of naming these patterns is not that they're amazingly innovative. The point of "Patterns" is that when we give them a name we can (a) discuss them easier with a common language, and (b), we can recognise when we use them again so to remember the pitfalls of last time.