That recommendation has some merit, but the use of Flex in no way depends on HTML, PHP, or CSS (though it helps). Flex is a front-end GUI builder, since it uses actionScript it would be helpful to have some background in other ecmaScript languages (like javaScript), but it isn't required.
Flex is limited in being able to connect to Databases and does require a little knowledge of php and sql (or whatever your back-end language is) in order to get and store data. I develop in Flex and php, I never used php before October, but it was simple to learn enough to connect my Flex app to a database. I guess what I'm saying is that your friend is neither right or wrong. It really depends on you. Did you learn to swim by starting in the shallow end and working your way into the deep? Or did you jump right into the lake? --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, "fred44455" <fred44...@...> wrote: > > I already know some html and CSS . Should I consider stopping learning Flex > getting into PHP and coming back to Flex 3 again? > The statement below is the recommendation of a friend programmer. > > > "I'm a little curious why you're jumping straight into advanced stuff and > skipping the basics completely. > > Start with HTML and CSS. Those are literally the building blocks of the web. > If you don't know them, it doesn't really matter if you understand OOP, > because you'll never be able to format the output for the web. Then I'd move > on to something like PHP... get a good solid grounding in basic programming > logic used on the web. THEN jump into ActionScript/Flash programming and > Flex." > > You're kind of starting at the wrong end of the progression >
