I couldn't agree more.... on all counts.... After twenty some years of programming I can honestly say that starting out with assember was one of the best things i have done, although it would have been nice to have google back then.
In the past 50-60 days I have been learning Flex I have gone to bed before 4am once, gotten up after 8.30am once and skipped 20-30% of all nights completely...... In retrospect it would probably have been smarter doing a "Hello World" instead of a massive project based 90% on custom components and convoluted data access. If you want it bad enough you will make it! --Allan On Dec 2, 2007 5:01 PM, tomeuchre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected] <flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, > Sheriff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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. > > Just take the right-colored pill and enter the Matrix. Then, you can > download the knowledge into your brain directly ;) > > Or, you can do like most of us that have been programming for 20+ > years: work 300-hour months, forget your social life, and drink lots > of caffeine. Don't forget to come up for air every now and then. > > At least today's generation has google. Back in the day, all we had > was Knuth (if you have not heard of Knuth, then it may be the problem > that you have not "gotten it" after 9 months at Flex. > > There are no shortcuts in programming -- either you spend the > required amount of time, living through the simple and major mistakes > one can (and will) make, or don't bother. > > Just don't do what I did and start with Assembler. Although it was > better in the long run, there's no need for the headaches these days. > > >
