Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-04 Thread yiğit boyar
what i mean is not "let flex in our course schedules". I believe a technology should never be offered as a course, at least for undergraduate (cs education&concepts are much more important) but adobe should do some more to introduce flex to students. Most of them are far from being a geek so they

Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-03 Thread Jon Bradley
On Apr 3, 2008, at 11:58 PM, Sherif Abdou wrote: Most Flash/Flex books do not even explain namespaces, how many bytes are int,uint and bitwise operations etc... I had to read a C+ + book first to actually be able to use ActionScript. Also there needs to be scenarios of say when it is better

Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-03 Thread Sherif Abdou
02:24 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities! So we're actually in the middle of rolling some of this out too :-) In North America today we can offer some posters for you to help recruit people to an event, we can give you an honorary titl

Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-03 Thread Matt Chotin
lt;mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> ] On Behalf Of krishna Raj Sent: 03 April 2008 09:18 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com><mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come

Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-03 Thread Daniel Freiman
dents are pretty keen : unfortunately they have also not any > idea that Flex even exists until we get there > > Matt > > ____________ > From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto: > flexcoders@yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf Of > krishna Raj > Sent: 03 Apri

Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-03 Thread Matt Chotin
@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of yigit boyar Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:52 PM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities! Yesterday, Microsoft was in my department to present silverlight&ajax technologies. Althoug

RE: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-03 Thread matt wicks
idea that Flex even exists until we get there Matt _ From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of krishna Raj Sent: 03 April 2008 09:18 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities! There is lot of scope for

RE: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-03 Thread Merrill, Jason
om%2Fsites%2Fddc%2Frd%2Fblog%2FLis ts%2FPosts%2FArchive%2Easpx> . From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of krishna Raj Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 4:18 AM To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe?

Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-03 Thread Samuel Neff
Our interns always learn and work with Flex and usually find an opportunity to continue to use Flex in their courses even if they aren't studying it. Most schools have some open projects where students can choose technologies even if the teachers aren't familiar with them. One of our interns in pa

Re: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-03 Thread krishna Raj
f Of *yigit boyar > *Sent:* Wednesday, April 02, 2008 5:52 PM > *To:* flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > *Subject:* [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities! > > > > Yesterday, Microsoft was in my department to present silverlight&ajax > technologies. > Al

RE: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-03 Thread Gregor Kiddie
AIL PROTECTED] From: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Rick Winscot Sent: 03 April 2008 08:55 To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com Subject: RE: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities! At this pace we won't (generally)

RE: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-03 Thread Rick Winscot
: [flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities! Yesterday, Microsoft was in my department to present silverlight&ajax technologies. Although silverlight is currently a bullshit compared to flex, and in my department (METU computer engineering) many people use linux; there were quite many pe

[flexcoders] Where is adobe? Come to universities!

2008-04-02 Thread yiğit boyar
Yesterday, Microsoft was in my department to present silverlight&ajax technologies. Although silverlight is currently a bullshit compared to flex, and in my department (METU computer engineering) many people use linux; there were quite many people attending to the seminar. Tomorrow, I'll do give a