One thing to consider is "1 year of experience" or 1 month of experience repeated for 12 months. Big difference. What I mean is that learning the syntax and usage of Flex is one thing. Creating Flex apps to handle real world problems is another thing entirely. Most tutorials that have you building photo browsers don't go very far in terms of business needs such as dealing with databases, user authentication, version control, blah blah blah.
Also, are you looking to specialize in a specific area? Websites vs. UI interfaces to large enterprise SOA deployments, etc. I suggest learning other programming basics to go along with your Flex learning. Java or C#.net would be good and both are pretty similar. JavaScript, XML, and (X)HTML are good skills to have as well. Another suggestion is to look through the help wanted ads in your area and see what skills people are looking for. Around here Flash developers with strong AS3 skills are in high demand. Most of the jobs requiring Flex I've seen require MVC skills and strong Java skills with Spring/Hibernate/etc. The other types of jobs requiring Flex usually also require strong AJAX/JavaScript/jQuery skills. Best of luck! --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "fred44455" <fred44...@...> wrote: > > I am new to Flex and started learning Flex 3 months ago. I have no > programming background. I wonder how long does it take to learn Flex and how > long will take me before I can apply for an entry level position? I gave > myself 1 year but I wonder if it is a realistic time frame? Thanks for your > time. > > Fred. >
