What is the difference between Strategy design pattern and State design pattern?

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What are the differences between the Strategy design pattern and the State design pattern? I was going through quite a few articles on the web but could not make out the dif

Answer 1

Strategy represents objects that "do" something, with the same begin and end results, but internally using different methodologies. In that sense they are analogous to representing the implementation of a verb. The State pattern OTOH uses objects that "are" something - the state of an operation. While they can represent operations on that data as well, they are more analogous to representation of a noun than of a verb, and are tailored towards state machines.