Tutorial or FAQ on design patterns?

Is there a good place to start on-line (tutorials, FAQ, or whatever) anyone
would recommend to learn the basics of Design Patterns? I know there are
plenty of books published over the last decade, and I would appreciate
recommendations on these as well, but first I would like to glean the basics
from what the Internet has to offer, please.

Much obliged!

My background: Although I have been doing OOD (in C++ and now C#) for a
number of years, I learned it by rote; am an old-timer who went to school
during the procedural and structured programming days (even B.C. -- before
C; using FORTRAN and Assembly Language on PDP-11's), and was never exposed
to Design Patterns in an academic setting.

Design Patterns
by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

is a standard text.

You will find some examples of design patterns in embedded and
distributed
systems at:

http://www.eventhelix.com/RealtimeMantra/Patterns/
http://www.eventhelix.com/RealtimeMa...atternCatalog/

Deepa
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