This is probably not a very good question but I read somewhere a long time ago that there are different sub categories to
patterns. The example was something like creative and behavior patterns. The question is what is the difference between these and are there more categories of patterns?
I am still trying to learn as much as possible about design patterns as I can. I have read the GoF book, and I know everbody loves it, but I just thought it was boring and hard to get through. We had another patterns book in our office that everybody loved but it was
Java specific. I wish I could remember it but the guy whose book it was left a few months after I started. Sorry to get off in a ramble but I have heard good things from people that have read Deepak Alur's books.