Hello Paul, I agree with you to some extent but not 100 percent. To develop controls like the one Sheriff shows, I believe you need to know Flash internal and it's framework.
You can have my example. I have almost 5 five years devlopment experiencein Microsoft Technologies like .NET and C++ and hardly a couple of months experience in Flex development. Currently, I am working on the Web front-end for our server to be developed in Flex. I am sure I will learn alot while developing that application. But I will not learn much about UI Component development in Flex as month of our features (controls) are based on datagrid. I am on Sheriff's side. I am looking for books and resources that can teach me Flex/Flash Internals and Frameworks which can help me in designing advanced UI controls like Flex Dashboard. Regards, Jehanzeb --- Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Sheriff > To: [email protected] > Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:27 AM > Subject: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex > > > So I have been trying to learn flex now for almost > 9 month and i pretty much still don't know much to > get me anywhere. This is also my first programming > language to learn. I know enough to make everything > work on its own but i still can't create stuff like > this > > http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/displayShelf/index.html > or any of the adobe Examples. So i was wondering, > how long does it take to actually start doing some > of that stuff and what is the best way to learn. > Looking at the source code doesn't help much since > there are too many files and its split up and the > functions get spread out all over. > > > Pick a small project to build. Develop it and stick > it through to the very end. Start with nothing > finish with the working program. > > If you get stuck as here and I'm sure we'll push > you forward if you get stuck. > > Before you start coding decide exactly what you want > - keep it simple. > > Try and work out a basic user interface. > > Consider the components and classes you might need > to support the application and UI. > > There will be loads of problems that you encounter > along the way that you won't expect, just > refine/redo until you overcome them. > > We have all been there. > > Get going! > > (Where in the world are you?) > > Paul ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. Make Yahoo! your homepage. http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
