OK, if that's true, (I didn't notice), but I still liked it when I was a beginner - it walked me through holding my hand essentially so I got more and more comfortable - it "turned the lightbulb" on for me, so to speak so I could move off on my own. If it taught me some bad ways to do things in the beginning, it was only to get the basic concept across, that's unfortunate of course, but at least, as you say, they show you why its not good and show you how you're gonna fix it, therefore you get a good understanding from both perspectives. I wouldn't
>>"We'll teach you the wrong way, then we'll tell you it's the >>wrong way after you already learned the lesson." Do they know nothing about the >>learning process? It may sound odd, but I disagree - some learning styles, like apparently yours would be offended by that and it wouldn't help - but for me, I like it because its fun learning a basic principle, and then learning, "Oh there is a better way, let's do that" - I don't think you should necessarily throw everyone in the lake to teach them to swim - even though some people will learn better that way, others will drown. This book obviously wasn't meant for your learning style, but it was for me. Jason Merrill Bank of America Global Learning Shared Services Solutions Development Monthly meetings on the Adobe Flash platform for rich media experiences - join the Bank of America Flash Platform Community -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Steven Sacks Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 9:47 PM To: Flash Coders List Subject: Re: [Flashcoders] Favorite Flex book? > For training, I like the Adobe Flex training from the source book(s). I personally did not like this book at all. Here's how the book goes: Build this like this. Build that like that. Now, you know how you built this and that? That's the wrong way to build it, so we're going to refactor everything and build it this new way. Ok now build on what we just did. Build again. Yeah, you know what we just spent a few chapters doing? That's the incorrect way to build stuff, so we're going to completely redo what we've done so far. This pattern repeats itself to the end of the book. It's a terrible way to teach something. "We'll teach you the wrong way, then we'll tell you it's the wrong way after you already learned the lesson." Do they know nothing about the learning process? Apparently so. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
