This book is very easy to read and understand. I was able to read it in my spare time in a week. The authors do a great job of taking design pattern concepts, no matter how complex and breaking them down to something easily understood. It's best to have at least a basic understanding of programming concepts to get the most out of this book, but it explains a lot so users can learn a lot starting from a more basic level than a lot of other books.

After reading the book, I was excited to put the topics to good use and have had better code ever since. A lot of the topics can easily be used in languages other than ActionScript 3 too.

I am the manager of the Seattle Flex User Group and when asked for a recommendation on a book to improve someones coding abilities, I always recommend this book first.

One of the best out there on ActionScript. You do need to know the basics and have worked with Flash/AS for quite some time though, before picking up this esteemed novel.

I primarily use the MVC pattern, but this book really goes to town, with patterns for previous state storage (Command, Momento), to creating an Event Dispatcher interface, as well as offering a thorough discussion on regular expressions and the perfunctory interface. The Composite pattern for example, although applied to file systems, could easily be applied to inventories and other recursive data structures.

An interesting thought arising from reading this book, is combining a Proxy pattern with a Decorator. Some unique optimisation techniques are definitely worth some experimentation.

Es un muy buen libro, pero si necesitas tener conocimientos basicos de AS3, asi como de POO, ya que el libro va dirigo a gente ya con algo de experiencia programando, porque el libro va directo a solucionar problemas por medio de los patrones de diseño.

I am not a programmer. I simply wanted to learn more about OOP using actionscript 3. I thought that with these principles, I can apply it to any project whether it be a little application, or a full-blown game.

I saw a lot of postive reviews for this book so I thought I would give it a try. It is definitely written by programmers, due to the fact that everything is class and object oriented - which is what I wanted.

I have read a few different actionscript books, and this one is the most in depth and complex one I have ever read. While most other actionscript books stop at giving basic functionality of classes, packages, and designing programs, this book really focuses in on the design and analysis aspect. It really gives a lot of thought and explanation as to "why" things are done.

This title definitely earns the title "advanced" in my book. While that might sound scary, it really isn't meant to deter people that understand how object oriented programming works.

I have read about half of the book so far, and what I have gotten the most information about is when and why to use certain classes, designing interfaces, and creating scalable, flexible project from the ground up.

In all of the examples on the patterns, it really explains why and how important encapsulation and modularity are when designing larger programs.

Bottom line: For wanting to learn more about OOP and desiging flexible applications, this is a great book. I have a much better understanding of the relationships between classes. Knowing how to design and develop larger applications can save hours.

A great book for understanding advanced OO concepts. My only complaint is that it deals only with AS. I would like it if it also had examples using MXML, for the full Flash experience.