Why can't you learn both at the same time? Flex by itself is all nice and dandy but the power comes from being able to create cross-browser, desk top deployable front-end to business processes and data. Techincally, the business logic can be built into Flex for a lot of stuff, but it's actually better to do that elsewhere like a middleware between the data and front end. Anywho... having skills to handle both modeling data on the server, processing it via the business logic layer, and then serving it up/to the flex front end is some strong Kung Fu.
--- In [email protected], "fred44455" <fred44...@...> wrote: > > I already know some html and CSS . Should I consider stopping learning Flex > getting into PHP and coming back to Flex 3 again? > The statement below is the recommendation of a friend programmer. > > > "I'm a little curious why you're jumping straight into advanced stuff and > skipping the basics completely. > > Start with HTML and CSS. Those are literally the building blocks of the web. > If you don't know them, it doesn't really matter if you understand OOP, > because you'll never be able to format the output for the web. Then I'd move > on to something like PHP... get a good solid grounding in basic programming > logic used on the web. THEN jump into ActionScript/Flash programming and > Flex." > > You're kind of starting at the wrong end of the progression >
