I agree with the basic trial by fire approach, been doing it for years,
BUT if Flex is to make it all the way as an enterprise platform, there
does need to be several levels of formal training available. What
commonly happens is you kind of hack your way around with it and try to
glean best practice approaches to things, but a lot of time gets wasted
because you don't know where to go for definitive answers.
The community is extremelyhelpful, though, and there's something to be
said for simply deciding to find answers and not resting until you do.
Jeff
-----Original Message-----
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Blake Barrett
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:18 PM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex?
Just start tackling projects. You can never be sure that you
can't do something until you fail at it, until then you can do anything.
Blake
________________________________
From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kyle Neath
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 10:13 AM
To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [flexcoders] Where to learn intermediate/advanced Flex?
I feel like I'm coming to a point now where I get the basics of
Flex.
I've got the whole component architecture down, I know the
basics of
Actionscript. I can create my own components by extending
UIComponent
and implementing the proper interfaces.
But I still feel like there's so much I have to learn: and I'm
not
sure where to look anymore. I've tried looking for books: but I
honestly haven't found one that isn't either a complete
beginners
book, or isn't written for Flex 1/1.5. I've tried looking for
online
communities around Flex, but haven't found anything really at
all.
Any advice on where to look next? Or should I just start
tackling
projects and learn as I go?
-Kyle
