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Yeah and he's right in a sense. The factory design pattern has to do with having a whole new class that is a factory used to pump out your objects. What he is referring to as a factory method is just...

I think you may be getting hung up on the terminology. "Factory" just refers to a design pattern. It's just an idea. "Public" is the visibility and "Static" refers to the fact that it can be called...

A factory is a whole class designed to create objects for you. They sometimes have multiple ways of getting the object so even though you are getting the same object either way, it is configured in a...