Sheriff has had 9 months opportunity to read books and tutorials. There's nothing like trying to do it yourself!
Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jehanzeb Musani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 2:37 PM Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex > Hello Paul, > > I agree with you to some extent but not 100 percent. > To develop controls like the one Sheriff shows, I > believe you need to know Flash internal and it's > framework. > > You can have my example. I have almost 5 five years > devlopment experiencein Microsoft Technologies like > .NET and C++ and hardly a couple of months experience > in Flex development. Currently, I am working on the > Web front-end for our server to be developed in Flex. > I am sure I will learn alot while developing that > application. But I will not learn much about UI > Component development in Flex as month of our features > (controls) are based on datagrid. > > I am on Sheriff's side. I am looking for books and > resources that can teach me Flex/Flash Internals and > Frameworks which can help me in designing advanced UI > controls like Flex Dashboard. > > Regards, > Jehanzeb > > --- Paul Andrews <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Sheriff >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:27 AM >> Subject: [flexcoders] Best Way to learn Flex >> >> >> So I have been trying to learn flex now for almost >> 9 month and i pretty much still don't know much to >> get me anywhere. This is also my first programming >> language to learn. I know enough to make everything >> work on its own but i still can't create stuff like >> this >> >> > http://demo.quietlyscheming.com/displayShelf/index.html >> or any of the adobe Examples. So i was wondering, >> how long does it take to actually start doing some >> of that stuff and what is the best way to learn. >> Looking at the source code doesn't help much since >> there are too many files and its split up and the >> functions get spread out all over. >> >> >> Pick a small project to build. Develop it and stick >> it through to the very end. Start with nothing >> finish with the working program. >> >> If you get stuck as here and I'm sure we'll push >> you forward if you get stuck. >> >> Before you start coding decide exactly what you want >> - keep it simple. >> >> Try and work out a basic user interface. >> >> Consider the components and classes you might need >> to support the application and UI. >> >> There will be loads of problems that you encounter >> along the way that you won't expect, just >> refine/redo until you overcome them. >> >> We have all been there. >> >> Get going! >> >> (Where in the world are you?) >> >> Paul > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Get easy, one-click access to your favorites. > Make Yahoo! your homepage. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > > > -- > Flexcoders Mailing List > FAQ: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flexcoders/files/flexcodersFAQ.txt > Search Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com > Yahoo! Groups Links > > >
