Uploaded January 2014 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
If you haven't watched my videos on Polymorphism, please watch those videos prior to watching this video.
1. youtube.com/watch?v=lVqBBkw3LwM
2. youtube.com/watch?v=xTnuXtZVb-E
The Template Method Pattern is probably the most often used Design Pattern. Essentially, is allows defining an operation and the sequence of steps that comprise this operation in a base class, while allowing descendants to implement, override or ignore certain steps of the operation and thus providing differing behavior across different descendants.
Although most design patterns hinge upon polymorphism, the Template Method Pattern I believe is the "classic" use of polymorphism, in that ancestors, "reach into descendants".
If you haven't watched my videos on Polymorphism, please watch those videos prior to watching this video.
1. youtube.com/watch?v=lVqBBkw3LwM
2. youtube.com/watch?v=xTnuXtZVb-E
The Template Method Pattern is probably the most often used Design Pattern. Essentially, is allows defining an operation and the sequence of steps that comprise this operation in a base class, while allowing descendants to implement, override or ignore certain steps of the operation and thus providing differing behavior across different descendants.
Although most design patterns hinge upon polymorphism, the Template Method Pattern I believe is the "classic" use of polymorphism, in that ancestors, "reach into descendants".
