# Good paper on Event-Driven Programming

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**Created:** [November 11, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/good-paper-on-event-driven-programming/3848 "2009-11-11T15:09:17Z")
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### Author: ![awneil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@awneil](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/u/awneil)
#### Post date: [February 26, 2013, 10:25am UTC](https://forum.sierrawireless.com/t/good-paper-on-event-driven-programming/3848/7 "2013-02-26T10:25:47Z")

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Discusses Event-Driven programming, and why State Machines are often a very good “fit” for such tasks.

Provides an example of the type of mess that’s all too easy to get into by doing Even-Driven programming without State Machines:

[embedded.com/design/prototyp … nes-Part-1](http://www.embedded.com/design/prototyping-and-development/4008247/1/A-crash-course-in-UML-state-machines-Part-1)

Part 2 looks at extensions provided by UML to the basic State Machine concept

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