Rob,
I would *highly* recommend C# A Programmers Introduction by Deitel and
Deitel. I had a similar background and it laid a framework I could
understand. It explained OOP to me better than any other book I've read.
The stuff you will learn from it will help you not only in Flash but any
other language in the future as well (no I don't work for them).
That will help and just doing it and asking a lot of questions.
Judah
Hairy Dog Digital wrote:
Danny,
It works, but seems fundamentally wrong, as I understood it was bad
practise
to add methods to an object dynamically. Should I make the
class listen for clicks on the nested clip or is there
another solution?
There's nothing wrong with adding methods to an object
dynamically. What's slightly dodgy is 'talking to' a child or
property of an object directly.
It's better OO practice for the object to be in charge of its
own properties, and to talk to it by some kind of accessor
method. So you might say
The original post and your reply, raised a question in my mind.
I got my start in programming with languages like Basic, Pascal, and C (no,
not C++ or C#). I latched onto Hypercard and Supercard in the beginning of
the 90s. (Yeah, I'm showing my age.) Later, as the web moved into the
commercial sector, I got into JavaScript, followed by Director and Flash.
I brought with me a lot of line-by-line coding bad habits. As much as I
understand OOP and try to utilize OOP in my projects, I often relapse into
"scripting" mode simply because it is natural to me.
Would you -- or anyone else out there -- have a good self-study book, web
site, online course, or other general recommendation, for breaking me out of
my existing mind set? It's got to be straightforward enough so that I grasp
it, but not so easy that I get bored by "Hello World" exercises (eg, Sam's
"Teach Yourself in 24 Hrs"), or so didactic that my intelligence is insulted
(eg, "_____ for Dummies").
My first thought was to jump into Java or some other environment that will
inhibit my ability to fall off the OOP wagon, so I picked up the books "Head
First Java" and "Head First Design Patterns" and am just starting to devour
them.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
FWIW, I did pick up the book
...Rob
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