The Factory Method - Programming Design Patterns - Ep 1 - C++ Coding

In this episode we introduce the series and talk about the first pattern, which is a pattern to help create and manage things in your program.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
2:10 New CMake Project
3:53 Theory
5:39 Coding A Factory
35:55 The Clone Variant
42:22 Outro
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Video Written, Edited, & Produced By:
▶ Matthew Early
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[dpatar]

I learned a lot from your cmake series. I believe this will be also great.

[IsaacCode]

great video !, loved the explanations,
14:45 Catdawg!

[reverse_shell]

Glad I paid attention to your pointer lesson... this needs some cleanup. :D Factory Pattern is pretty cool! The Clone() method was pretty dope.

[cesarb.yamasato]

Isn't it possible to make a spawner interface with a spawn() method and then the spawn classes define it (like dogSpawner and catSpawner) so you can have just a specific creature spawner be used as a generic creature spawner?

[muonline]

maybe my question is very noob, but I saw in the github, the author uses many times new operator, but he never uses delete them or it? So why? Because normally when I read the book they always say that we have to delete the raw pointers to avoid memory leak, but it seems that this problem is not big, because I see that many tutorials, they never care about it.

[sam-pdsu]

Is not against oop principles doings cast?

[prezadent]

This is a simple factory / factory object example. It's not a pattern.
Congrats on not calling it the factory method pattern or the abstract factory pattern but since this is the first video in a design patterns series, you really need to get this right.
And at least 2/3 of the videos on youtube are wrong about factories and factory patterns. Stick to the GoF book.