Constructing the User Interface with Statecharts

Author: Ian Horrocks List Price: $46.99 Our Price: Click to see the latest and low price ISBN: 0201342782 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co (17 January, 1999) Edition: Paperback Sales Rank: 113,812 Average Customer Rating: 4 out of 5

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The author gives compelling arguments for adapting the design methodology, and walks the reader through progressively more complex examples. The author's writing style is easy to read yet not fluffy or wordy.

If it were not for two points, I would have given this book 5 stars. First, I think he does not tie in the idea of the UCM (User interface, Control object, and Model layer) into the statecharts enough to show how they might fit together, or maybe I'm just a little dense. Second, his nod to coding statecharts should have been left out of the book -- it really didn't help me figure out how to code the charts by any means. In my book, I explore these areas pretty thoroughly.

All in all, though, a very worthwhile read that I recommend to all my colleagues who want to learn about the power of statecharts.

In conclusion, the book should be trimmed down in half and emphasizes more the practical writing of guis. A few lines of code make to little to understand if this tecnique is useful for REAL DEVELOPMENT.

What is in there is simple and very effective. Few computer books have this kind of impact. The code examples are not elegant, use a SateChart engine instead (built your own, or use something like xjCharts...).

Way of the future (but don't forget to provide your SateCharts diagrams with your code :-)

Great little book !

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