Design Patterns

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I'm now reading ``Head First Design Patterns."^[1]
When I'm finished, can I expect to be an EXPERT SOFTWARE DESIGNER???

Notes                                 
1. http://books.google.com/books?id=LjJcCnNf92kC

I had a design pattern fanboi on my team for a project in university. We had to make a simple game. The design he came up with was so ridiculously overengineered, it was 20 pages or so of diagrams of observers, singletons, factories, visitors, etc.

He told us he could implement it easily. After a couple of weeks, the result was barely functional, and a functional equivalent with a normal design could have probably been made in two days. In the end, we barely passed the course.