[flexcoders] Is it better easier to learn Flex3 AS3 via a book or videos?

[fred44455]

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Re: [flexcoders] Is it better easier to learn Flex3 AS3 via a book or videos?

[Paul Andrews]

Depends on you really.

Most people would do well with a mixture of both.

It's free to check out some sample videos on lynda.com.
Flex in a week is to be recommended: 
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/videotraining/ and is free.

Did you expect some definitive answer?

Paul 

Re: [flexcoders] Is it better easier to learn Flex3 AS3 via a book or videos?

[Alan Rother]

Is Chocolate Ice Cream Better than Vanilla?
It's really more of an opinion than a provable fact. I've done both, read a
bunch of books and watched some of the videos on Lynda.com.

I found them both very helpful, the videos more so than the books at the
beginning and the books more helpful now that I know some flex. However,
it may have been that the videos had the newbie more in mind than the books
did, or at least the books I had at the time.

I would recommend checking out Lynda.com and going through the basic Flex
training, then getting several of the Flex books that appeal to what you
want to get out of Flex.

HTH

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Alan Rother
Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer
Manager, Phoenix Cold Fusion User Group, AZCFUG.org

Re: [flexcoders] Is it better easier to learn Flex3 AS3 via a book or videos?

[Jeffry Houser]

Vanilla is better by far. 

That said, I tend to learn best by doing; and by quickly skimming text 
(often documentation) I can find the answer to my question.  Videos are 
hard to skim. 

You may also want to check out our Flex Show video series in addition 
to the Adobe Flex in a Week stuff. ( 
http://www.theflexshow.com/blog/index.cfm/Fifteen-Minutes-With-Flex )


Alan Rother wrote:



Is Chocolate Ice Cream Better than Vanilla?

It's really more of an opinion than a provable fact. I've done both, 
read a bunch of books and watched some of the videos on Lynda.com.


I found them both very helpful, the videos more so than the books at 
the beginning and the books more helpful now that I know some flex. 
However, it may have been that the videos had the newbie more in mind 
than the books did, or at least the books I had at the time.


I would recommend checking out Lynda.com and going through the basic 
Flex training, then getting several of the Flex books that appeal to 
what you want to get out of Flex.


HTH

=]

--
Alan Rother
Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion MX 7 Developer
Manager, Phoenix Cold Fusion User Group, AZCFUG.org





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