Composite: What do Media Libraries teach us about coding? | Patterns Explained #programming

What is the Composite Pattern? (Structural Software Design Pattern Explained!) 🎬📺

The Composite Design Pattern is a powerful object-oriented programming (OOP) concept that allows individual objects and collections of objects to be treated the same way. 🚀

🔹 Example: A Movie is a single object, while a TV Show is a composite containing Seasons and Episodes. Both share the same interface to compute their total duration!
🔹 Follows the Open/Closed Principle! The Composite Pattern makes your code extensible—you can add new media types (e.g., Podcasts, Audiobooks) without modifying existing logic.
🔹 Why use it? It simplifies handling complex hierarchies, making your code scalable, reusable, and maintainable.

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