What are your reasons for taking this course?

• To learn to recognize better methods and architecture in solving design issues.
• Professional development.
• Interest in software engineering and software o-o analysis & design.
• For code & architecture reuse.
• Get a general knowledge of when diff. Patterns had to be used & since I wanted to see some examples in Java instead of C++.
• I wanted to gain more knowledge in object oriented principles.
• Learn to apply object oriented design principles & paradigms.
• I do OOA & D at work and this is very useful.
• Patterns should be a very useful technique.
• Sounds a great class.
• It's useful.
• Improve my Java program skill.
• To improve Java programming skills, and to learn about Patterns.
• Wanted to become more familiar with Java.
• Improve my software development skills by learning new design concepts.
• Greater exposure to Java, make up for lack of experience by learning patterns.
• Like Java, will do anything related to Java. Only 3 courses are available in Portland which are Java related. So don't want to miss on it.
• Learn about Design Patterns used in Java & the implementation of Patterns in Java.
• 1. Learn more Java (I took the first course).
  2. Intro to Patterns.
• Learn Design Patterns.
• To learn Java and also object oriented concepts.
• Learn more about high level design architecture. Career motivation.
• Useful for Java programming in real-world.
• To learn more about Design Patterns and apply them efficiently.
• To gain more experience w/ Java and to learn patterns.
• Knowledge of programming constructs that are not specific to any single language.
• Design patterns are becoming famous in software industry.
• Needed for my current assignment as well as for future better opportunities.