[FlashCodersNY] meeting topic for tomorrow. Implementations

[Jean-Charles Carelli]

I recently finished Kent Becks excellent book "Implementation  
Patterns". It's 140 pages and a quick read. This is not your typical  
MVC architecture patterns book! Instead it covers the little things we  
do everyday:

	• How and when to create classes, and how classes encode logic
	• Best practices for storing and retrieving state
	• Behavior: patterns for representing logic, including alternative  
paths
	• Writing, naming, and decomposing methods
	• Choosing and using collections

He also covers some high level topics like how to structure code that  
is intended to be used as a Framework versus how similar behavior  
would be written for a target application. In many cases the  
strategies are reversed

This is about writing code that makes sense, is easy to read, and is  
light-weight. He does not advocate strictly following any pattern  
instead he focuses on writing code that expresses your intent. Doing  
so will create code that organizes itself.

The examples are in Java, but he uses lots of GUI sample code that  
relates easily to ActionScript.

We can go through the pdf (link below) or target a specific chapter.

Thoughts?

J-C


// Some links

The entire book as a pdf via Wikipedia. The link is at the bottom of  
the page.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_Beck

About the book with another sample chapter
http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1149121

A video interview.
http://www.infoq.com/interviews/beck-implementation-patterns