AdvancED ActionScript 3.0: Design Patterns

Reading a Design Pattern

The football players in Figure 4-1 may be in the right positions, but you can't tell how they work together to achieve their goal. The simple use of lines and arrows brings the strategy to life, indicating the relationships of the players as shown in Figure 4-2.

Figure 4-1. Representation of a team formation

Figure 4-2. Representation of a team's strategic game play

A professional developer's design-pattern books are much like the playbook of a professional team, showing the actions of every athlete on the field. ...