RE: Spiegel books (was RE: [CFCDev] MVCF at benorama.com)

[Charlie Arehart]

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Well sure, and we can't discuss OOP and ActionScript without a nod to the highly regarded "OO Programming with ActionScript: by Branden Hall and Sam Wan.   I didn't mention that before because I was only asking Scott to elaborate on his opinion of the Speigel book. I didn't realize it was the OO aspects of it that he liked so much.   /charlie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Michael Greenberg Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 12:19 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Spiegel books (was RE: [CFCDev] MVCF at benorama.com) In my humble opinion the best OOP type of book out there is Colin Moock's Actionscript book. It's not an OOP only book, but if you really want to "get it" so to speak this book is by far the best one out there as far as OOP programming appraoches go. I believe he has Chapter 12 which is the OOP chapter posted somewhere, but that is by far the best AS book I have seen...hands down...   Thanks, Michael ----- Original Message ----- From: Charlie Arehart To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 9:56 PM Subject: RE: Spiegel books (was RE: [CFCDev] MVCF at benorama.com) Interesting to hear. Thanks.  (Though I must admit, some of the negative reviews don't seem that "ignorant", but I take your point. Always good to hear both sides, so I'm glad I asked.)   /charlie -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Scott Barnes Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2003 5:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Spiegel books (was RE: [CFCDev] MVCF at benorama.com) Yeah thats the book.   I've read the reviews, and i personally put them down to the fact that people expected this book to be a "OOP How To" book. The objective of the book seems to be distorted, and for that I'd also give it a negative, but I have read it and I noted the way in which she starts a FlashMX project and to me she tackles something traditionally very "visual" in a way like I have rarely seen before.   I thin the core objective of this book is not "how to make components" or not "how to program in OOP with FlashMX" its more of "how to start/finish a flashmx project".   I've adopted alot of her concepts in my FlashMX/CFMX development, especially due to the fact that our core application here uses DHTML/FMX/CFMX/FCOM etc so I have to keep things neat, clean and nicely tucked in their own pigeon wholes.   In my view, its worth the read despite the negative ignorant based reviews, especially for those who understand FlashMX and need a "methodology" to use as a reference.   Scott Barnes