ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns: Object Oriented Programming Techniques (Adobe Developer Library) 1st Edition

This book provides a lot of example of design patterns in AS3. If you've never read a book about design patterns then you will benefit greatly. AS3 programmers should get this book if they don't have a design pattern book! If you already have a design pattern book then this book will not benefit you as much unless you want to see AS3 design pattern examples.The author doesn't just give one example and then skip to the next design pattern. There is a simple, bare bone example that gives the reader a better feel for the use of the pattern. Reading UML models just doesn't do it for me so viewing the bare bone (minimalist) example really made a difference. The book then gives more detailed examples. Some of the examples are complete programs. Some people may find it over kill. I normally concentrated on the bare bone examples and breezed through the full detail program examples. I'm time constraint.Overall this is a great book and worth reading if you need to learn about design patterns or you need a refresher.

I bought this book when I wanted to pick up on Design Patterns in AS3 (I had little to no experience with DP in AS2), and after I read "Essential ActionScript 3.0". I bought it without reading any reviews because I like O'reilly books, but after I placed the order, I looked at the reviews, and noticed that people were favoring "Advanced ActionScript 3 with Design Patterns" (by Joey Lott and Danny Patterson) -- so I went to the closest B&N and picked it up a day before the O'reilly one arrived, so I was able to compare. I must say that I liked the O'reilly book by FAR over the other one, mostly because of the detailed and extensive examples, descriptive copy and easy-to-follow real-life samples (even though the author referred to Gnarls Barkley as a person at one point.. haha).So - for someone like me, who knew AS3 (the books assumes you do), but wanted to get into OOP with Design Patters, this was an excellent choice. I would highly recommend it.

This book is very poorly written, rather than use straight forward and logical explanations, the author appears as though he was trying to be clever and impressive in his descriptions. As a math and physics tutor, as well as a seasoned computer programmer, I know that a great teacher is some one who can take complicated concepts and present them in an understandable and logical sequence of explanations. These guys take things that are understandable and make it more complicated by trying to be impressive in their presentation rather than concentrating on the clearness of their explanations. There are so many paragraphs that left me shaking my head at the lame and pathetic way they chose to present such basic concepts. It reminds me of some one who tried to explain a derivative as a calculation from infinite smallness rather than just simply stating it as an instantaneous rate of change of one variable with respect to another variable. This is very, very poorly written.

The concepts in this book are great for any Actionscript developer and they thoroughly explain solutions via design patterns. I'd recommend this book to any aspiring AS3 developer.HOWEVER, there is so many horrible mistakes in this book. While the content is awesome, it seems like the editor was plastered when he put this little job together. In Chapter 7, it is almost unbearable. Words are omitted, code is omitted, sections are re-pasted into the book often... it's utterly horrible. I keep finding myself getting upset trying to read this book because so much is left out and so much is repeated identically on the next page!!!All in all, if you're interested in learning Design Patterns (and they are very useful) buy this book. The content is great, the editor should be fired from the universe.

Exactly what I wanted.

This a good book that it pays off, with a good context and techniques for developing a enterprise application. But it has many bad examples (except few ones), instead of using real world examples, it uses another kind, like bad and evil soul to explain Decorator pattern.

This book has all the necessary information about design patters for Action Script, I'm Computer Sciences Engineer with more that 5 years developing with Flash, believe me i know what i'm saying

This book was awesome for my knowledge, perfect. Also the amazon guys did a great work, sending it very fast.Thanks guys