Thanks guys for your responses.
Kerry,
Too true. I've had to teach myself PHP, XML, MySQL, Javascript and I
already knew HTML before I learned flash.
I know there are a lot of AS2 jobs out there, but I live in a major
city and major cities don't dwell in the older languages.
So yeah, the scenario you were speaking of, just minus the wife. (but
I digress)
I really want to get into OOP and I feel like AS3 would be a better
language to learn that in.
I was going to learn it in AS2 just so I would know it, but that may
be a good "Learning AS3" project.
Just don't want to bite off more than I can chew.
I wish I already knew what the transitions were for the things I know
how to code in AS2,
but redoing all those projects in AS3 is what I have no time to do.
So which of those other flash developing programs would be ok for
doing AS2?
Best,
Karl
On Mar 30, 2010, at 5:10 PM, Kerry Thompson wrote:
Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
I want to learn AS3, I really do, but it takes too much time away from
making money for me that I find myself missing out. :(
I wish it was easier to make the transition, but then everyone
would be a
AS3 developer, right.
Hey, if you're doing well with AS2, there's nothing wrong with that.
It's not going away for a long time.
COBOL used to be the dominant language for business apps. I haven't
programmed in COBOL for 25 years, but I still see COBOL gigs posted.
Once you get a sizable app built in a language, you have to have a
compelling reason to switch to another. So, there are still COBOL
programmers around, maintaining 20-year-old programs.
I chose to teach myself AS3 because it's the future. I had a year of
pretty low income while I was learning, and doing gigs at a reduced
price to get practical experience. Fortunately, my wife earns enough
that I could take that year to become proficient. Some people don't
have that luxury.
By the time you run out of AS2 gigs, you might be old enough to
retire, or we might all be doing AS4, or some totally new environment
and language. No one can predict the computer future with any
accuracy, so we have to keep re-inventing ourselves every 3-5 years.
In your career, you will probably need to learn at least 4 or 5 new
languages--in my 30th year or programming, I'm on my 9th language.
Cordially,
Kerry Thompson
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