Benign I'm sure everyone on this list will say yes to learning oop right away. Well, almost everyone. I'll point you instead to productivityenhancement.com where you can download a framework called PLUM. Plum is a framework that uses the best of what coldfusion was designed to be...a quick, easy to learn, scripting language that makes extensive use of custom tags.
Download plum, work through the tutorials you'll be building scalable, robust applications in half the development time as the more seasoned oop developers do. Plum makes extensive use of CFC's, but it also has a few dozen custom tags that make development much faster and easier to learn and creates a natural procedural/oop hybrid framework. Not only will you be up and running much faster, but as you delve into the framework's code, you'll learn, by osmosis, best practices for coldfusion development. When you are ready to learn oop, start with an oop language (oop + coldfusion is a bit of a hack), like AS 3.0 or java or .net/c#. Mark -----Original Message----- From: Ali [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:38 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: CFC, YES OR NO Hi: I am using CF for while now but I have no other programing background. I used Lynda.com video tutorials to learn CF and some other online tutorials like EasyCFM.com. Several days efore I recieved two new CF8 tutorials from Lynda.com(Lynda.com ColdFusion 8 Essential Training | Lynda.com ColdFusion 8 Beyond the Basics) but I got confused completely! David Gassner the tutor has a complete plan to talks about many corners of CF but he starts using CFCs very soon at the middle of the first tutorial. He mentions you can never use CFCs and make all the application using simple CF tags but knowing CFCs helps you make it more reusable and manageable. I found CFCs VERY confusing for myself. I tried to learn it but I didn't get it completely. Maybe because I have no programing background with other languages other than HTML. What do you think? Should I learn it? Does it gradually become the core of CF programing to use CFCs? Please write me your opinions, knowledge and experiences about the subject. Thanks Benign ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:298331 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
