Editorial Reviews
Product Description:How soon can you learn Adobe Flex 3? With this book's unique hands-on approach, you will be able to tinker with examples right away, and create your own Rich Internet Applications with Flex within the first few chapters. As you progress, you learn how to build a layout, add interactivity, work with data, and deploy your applications to either the Web or the desktop.
Learning Flex 3 offers step-by-step instructions that are clear and concise, along with tips and tricks that author Alaric Cole has gathered after years of using Flex and teaching it to fellow developers at Yahoo! You'll understand how Flex works, how to use the MXML markup language and work with ActionScript, how to deploy RIAs to the desktop using Adobe AIR, and much more.
Whether you're a beginner, or an experienced web developer coming to Flex from another platform,
Learning Flex 3 is the ideal way to learn how to:
- Set up your environment with FlexBuilder and Eclipse
- Create a new Flex project
- Use the different design views in Flex
- Write code with MXML
- Lay out your Flex application
- Embed images and graphics
- Build a user interface
- Add interactivity with ActionScript
- Handle user input
- Move, display, and collect data
- Add custom components with MXML
- Add sound effects, filters, and transitions
- Style your applications with CSS, skins, and themes
- Deploy applications to the Web, or to the desktop using Adobe AIR
Also included are brief explanations of objects, classes, components, properties, methods, types, and other Flex attributes. You will find that Learning Flex 3 is not only the most complete tutorial for Flex, it's also the quickest way to get going with the latest version of this powerful framework.
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
You might actually learn something., November 28, 2008
By
J. Wallace (St. Louis, Missouri)
From the standpoint of someone who has little experience with internet applications of any sort outside of the obvious, I found ths book to be not only easy to read and navigate but a fantastic way to introduce myself to a useful program. The author wisely chooses a conversational tone throught the book which in my opinion creates an easier mode of learning and is one of the book's greatest strengths. I feel like I am being taught by a good friend rather than lectured by a mechanical disembodied voice.
To discredit this book for a lack of depth is irrelevant as it is clearly a beginners book designed to get your feet wet. And, furthermore, to give a 1 star rating because it is a "noob" book is simply moronic and misleading. That sort of childish downvoting should be saved for the next Nickleback release.
If you plan on using Flex 3, or are looking for a way to get your feet wet in the use of rich internet applications, get this book and enjoy it.
Ok for a noob, November 25, 2008
By
James K. Murphy (Port Orchard, WA USA)
This book is written for someone that know next to nothing about programming. If that is your condition then by all means get this book otherwise I would avoid it.
Learn Web 2.0 by "Learning Flex 3", November 18, 2008
By
E. Robison (Springfield, Missouri)
This is a great book for anyone wanting to experiment with the basics of contemporary web design as supported by the Flex environment.
Those new to RIA and Web 2.0 development will find Mr. Cole's sample applications relevant, covering the tenets of the interactive web portal as well as their implementation into site construction.
More weathered coder-types will probably want to supplement Learning Flex 3 with a cookbook or a text expanding upon the logic language behind Flex: ActionScript.
Learning Flex 3, November 16, 2008
By
Angie S.I was disappointed with the lack of depth this book contained. I had read reviews prior to purchasing this book that claimed it was a great book to start with. But the problem is that there is no depth in the topics covered. This book requires a companion book that provides the detail that LF3 does not contain. LF3 is too soft even for beginners.
Aimed at beginners but not dummies, November 9, 2008
By
Foti Massimo (Vezia (Switzerland))
While I kept my eyes on Flex for quite a while, I never used it before I started reading "Learning Flex 3". I have solid programming background, but no previous experience with Flash and/or ActionScript. This book was exactly what I needed, aimed at beginners but not dummies. The topic's choice was well balanced, and the colors and nice typography made the whole reading experience even more pleasant. Of course, as soon as you get more familiar with Flex, you will outgrow this book pretty soon, but that's expected.
