The first meeting will serve to introduce the design pattern concept. Dicussion will focus on the deisgn pattern concept and uses of design patterns.

Please see the referenced documents in the ACM Digital Library.

Software Patterns October 1996 CACM
Non-software Examples of Software Design Patterns

The more people that read the documents before hand, the more productive the meeting can be. However, feel free to come even if you are unable to complete the reading. The meeting will be at 6:30pm on Wednesday October 19th in Bruner 417.