I’m not usually one to buy geeky books. I often prefer the free wealth of information provided by the interweb. The other day though, I bought the book shown below. Head First Design Patterns.

Most flash books don’t teach me anything new, and I don’t want to buy a whole book just to learn one or two new things, so I thought I would read up on more general coding practices.

The book explains the principles of using design patterns and then takes you through a number of the more common patterns you can use. But it does this in an entertaining and easily understandable way, with examples and stuff for your brain to do other than just read paragraphs of text. It’s very easy to dive in to.

The code examples are in Java, but if you know Actionscript 2 then you really don’t need to worry, you’ll find them easy enough to understand.

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