Index: ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns Principles and Design Patterns at Work
Easy to Find
We got to the point where the posts on the Principles of OOP and Design Patterns and the discussions of introducing Design Patterns to the workplace became so numerous that they were difficult to locate on the blog. This is the first index that we have, and as we continue to grow, we’ll have to add more. (We are certainly nearing that point with MVC and Pure MVC posts.) So, in the “Categories” section of our blog, we’ll be adding indices as needed. Look for the Index category to locate all indices.
Principles:
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OOP and Design Patterns Ready for Work
This post includes a quick guide to all of the principles discussed in the form of an AIR application that you can store on your desktop for a quick reference.
- Download Magic Table AIR Application
Magic Table: What Varies in a Design Pattern
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The Liskov Substitution Principle
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Program to an Interface; not an implementation
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Favor Object Composition over Inheritance
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Separate what varies from what stays the same and encapsulate what varies
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Objects should be loosely coupled
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Classes should be open for extension but closed for modification
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High-level and low-level modules should depend on abstractions (Dependency Inversion Principle)
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Only communicate with closely related object (Least Knowledge Principle)
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High-level components can call low-level components, but low level components never call high level components (Hollywood Principle)
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Your class should have one and only one responsibility (Single Responsibility Principle)
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Is Your ActionScript 3.0 Design Good? : The Three Keys of Good Design
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No New is Good New: Using Inheritance, Composition, Delegation and anything else other than New in ActionScript 3.0 Design Patterns
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Design Patterns at Work
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Why Design Patterns?
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Strategy Design Pattern for Work
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Decorator Design Pattern for Work
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Not at the Children’s Table Anymore
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ActionScript 3.0 Developers: The Children’s Table Revisited
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No Time for OOP and Design Patterns
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Take a Design Pattern to Work Part I: Identifying the Problem
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Take a Design Pattern to Work Part II: A Little OOP
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Take a Design Pattern to Work Part III: Loosening Up
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Take a Design Pattern to Work Part IV: Establishing a Design Pattern Foundation
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Bill Sanders
Incredible resource. Thanks so much for putting in the time & effort to write each of these. Really good AS3/OOP design pattern material is still so much harder to come by than I can believe, and I’ve learned so much more already just from half a day of browsing your articles.
Hi Tim,
Thanks, we’re glad you find them helpful. Please let us know if there’s a topic in ActionScript 3.0 design patterns and related OOP that you’d like more information about and to discuss. We like to think that we’re as adaptable to change as the design patterns we discuss.
Kindest regards,
Bill
Thank you for the great resource you’re amazing.
Hicham,
We’re delighted to hear you like it. We’d also like to hear any ideas you have to improve our Blog.
Kindest regards,
Bill
This is great. Have been through a couple of posts, and am very happy about them.
For programmers who are entering the world of DP or more structured programming, like me, it would be great to see more examples where the material guides the reader thru’ a problem and ways to implement it. Discussing the pros/cons of a particular design and some hypothetical constraints which might come up in future which a particular design may be able to incorporate in better fashion than some others
Hi Kamlesh,
Thanks for the note. What you want is exactly what we want to do. It just takes time, and we’re chipping away at it. Right now, I’m trying to create a “amusement park ride” through a State Design Pattern. I hope to have the first part of it up before next week.
Also, if you’re interested in PHP design patterns, we just started one: http://www.php5dp.com
Kindest regards,
Bill
Wow. This is the best resource I found on the web for design patterns and promoting the S.O.L.I.D principles. Thanks so much for your efforts!
Hey Dan,
We’re glad to oblige!
Bill