Thanks Jim, Actually I haven't tried looking at any books yet. That requires a 75km drive during a work day and a loss of 3 billable hours to find any book store that has anything relating to ColdFusion, and the on line descriptions of these books are pretty sketchy to say the least. Certainly not enough detail there to persuade me to cough up for $55 for the book, $25 for the workbook, another $20 for freight/postage - nearly AUD$100 - on the off-chance it wont be just as difficult for me to understand as the on-line tutorials I've seen.
Before I spend that kind of money on a book I like to get my hands on it and leaf through it. I've spent far too much money on technical books over the past 30 years that have ended up gathering dust on my bookshelf after having read 30 pages because they are just too difficult for my poor old brain to handle, or they don't explain things clearly enough, or they are simply "do this, do that, click here" books, with no explanation of the underlying reasons for things. (Those books are great if you want to do what the author describes, but leave you in the cold if you want to do anything else. Which I usually do. The most prominent example of this is any Microsoft Help file. In my WinXPPRo for example I can learn how to enable UDP, without anywhere being able to learn what UDP is or get help about whether I would want to enable it or not.) So I'm looking for really beginner level online tutorials right now, and I'll progress to more comprehensive things after that. But thanks for your suggestions Jim. Maybe a little bit down the track. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -----Original Message----- From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 1 June 2003 3:54 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: VERY Basic Beginner tutorial on CFCs? Although not specific to CFCs (in fact it goes way beyond what CFCs are capable of) I've found the Wrox book "Beginning Java Objects" to be an excellent introduction to OO terminology and concepts. If you're not interested in Java then you can read only the first part which deals with more general OO stuff (but in a Java framework). I'm assuming that you've also tried "Discovering CFCs" by Hal Helms from techspedition.com? If not it's also a good introduction to general OO concepts and (obviously) focuses specifically on CFCs. Jim Davis President, http://www.depressedpress.com Webmaster, http://www.firstnight.org Webmaster, http://www.cfAdvocacy.org Senior Consultant, http://www.metlife.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 12:44 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: VERY Basic Beginner tutorial on CFCs? > > I have seen there is a lot of information about CFCs around and covers > pretty well anything you might want to do with CFCs. > > But all the ones I've found so far very quickly become difficult to > understand because they're using concepts and terminology that's strange > to > me. I figure I have to do a more basic tutorial somehow to grasp the > basics first. > > Is there a REALLY beginner-level tutorial on CFCs anywhere? > > > > Cheers, > Michael Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > AFP Webworks. > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
