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Creational Design Patterns

Creational design patterns concern the process of object creation. These are the patterns comes under creational design patterns.

• Abstract Factory pattern is used to create families of objects.
• Builder pattern is used to create complex object in steps with different representations.
• Factory Method pattern uses subclass to create object of a derived class of another class which is not known.
• Prototype pattern is used to create an object by cloning a prototype.
• Singleton pattern is used to create one and only one instance of a class.

Suresh Kumar Srivastava is founder of online learning site coursegalaxy.com and author of popular books "C In Depth", "Data Structures Through C In Depth". He has 18+ years experience in industry and worked on architecture and design of multiple products. This article is from his courses on Design Patterns.