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Statecharts: a visual formalism for complex systems: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/seoc/2005_2006/resources/statecharts.pdf http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/

Statecharts: a visual formalism for complex systems: http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/seoc/2005_2006/resources/statecharts.pdf http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/teaching/courses/seoc/2005_2006/reso... Even though it's from 1986 it's enlightening how useful it is to think about reactive systems using statecharts - especially as a UI developer this seems to make total sense and was a ah-ha moment when I first read it a couple months ago.

wallflower 9y ago
Elegant and simple. Thank you for sharing it even though it is over 30 years old. Next time you happen to be at a store that has the rare, old fashioned-type automatic doors that swing out (not slide in/out), hurry out before your friends and stand on the pressure pad that is in the direction of the door swing out. No one will be able to exit. This is a simple example of a state machine in the real world that I like to use to explain more complex state machines.