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Book:   ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns
Subject:   Book for Real Developers.
Date:   2008-06-17 08:45:49
From:   Draco
Rating:  StarStarStarStarStar

If you want to build realy big apps in AS, you should definitly make friends with design patterns. And thats why this book was created. It covers all of most helpful design patterns you would need in developing AS applications.

Patterns are grouped, depending on their type, and this is very good move, cause we can very easy find pattern which we need.

Groups used in book:
  1. Creational Pattern
    • Factory Method Pattern
    • Singleton Pattern
  2. Structural Patterns
    • Decorator Pattern
    • Adapter Pattern
    • Coposite Pattern
  3. Behavioral Patterns
    • Command Pattern
    • Observer Pattern
    • Template Metod Pattern
    • State Pattern
    • Strategy Pattern
  4. Multiple Patterns
    • MVC Pattern
    • Symetric Proxy Pattern

All patterns are realy good described. This is not theorycrafting book, apart from theory, there are always one or two examples.

For me the best thing is that you can go throught the book, read (and understand!) introduction of every pattern, maybe some examples, and when you will be developing this BIG_APP, and when you will find a place for one of the patterns, you can easily find it and include in your project.

Of course this book is not perfect - sometimes provided examples are too easy to fully show potential of pattern, and reader can misunderstand benefits of using it.

Even so, this book is must have for people who don't know design patterns, and want to develop realy good applications in ActionScript 3.0

Best Regards
Michał Czaicki

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