The state diagram provides the framework needed to think through the state machine design. This is usually shown as a collection of circles, with each circle representing a state, and with arrows ...

A nice aspect of the state machine concept is its compelling graphical representation in the form of state diagrams. In the modern Unified Modeling Language (UML 2.5) notation [3], states are ...

With Visual State’s graphical interface, state-machine models can be created using a familiar drag-and-drop approach (see figure). These models can be turned into C, C++, C#, or Java source code.