[osflash] Share the knowledge: Books

[Luke Bayes]

Hey Don,

Thanks for forwarding that link!

I just wanted to add to that - if a person is serious about learning design
patterns, it *really* helps to get around a small group of other folks and
discuss each pattern in detail - especially in how it relates to
ActionScript development. Ali Mills and I worked with a group of Bay Area
developers over the past year and went through the Gang of Four book twice.
I thought that I had a pretty good comprehension before the study group, but
as it turned out - I was wrong! Even after reviewing each pattern every
week, we realized that it would be valuable to do them all again.

Joshua Kerievsky (The author of Refactoring to Patterns) has a really great
site devoted to helping people organize just such a meeting:

http://www.industriallogic.com/papers/learning.html

I can't wait until more flash developers get into Patterns, Test-Driven
Development and agile processes!

BTW - Don't forget to check out the newly-released AsUnit XUL UI and AsUnit
3.0 for ActionScript 3!


Thanks,


Luke Bayes
www.asunit.org <http://www.asunit.org>
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