Learning Flex 3: Getting up to Speed with Rich Internet Applications

by Alaric Cole

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

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.

304 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

Reviews

[Helmut · Rating 3 out of 5]

Für Programmieranfänger

Ich denke, dieses Buch ist für Programmieranfänger, die sich für die ersten Schritte Flex 3 ausgesucht haben, eine gute Wahl. Man bekommt eine klar gegliederte und ausführliche Anleitung, wie man erste Flex-Applikationen schreibt - gleichzeitig werden nebenbei einige grundliegende Konzepte des Programmierens mitvermittelt.

Ich gebe aber trotzdem nur 3 Sterne - erstens ersetzt es nicht eine "richtige" Einführung ins Progammieren, dafür ist der Inhalt hier nicht ausreichend. Zweitens ist das Buch für Leute, die bereits Java, C# oder andere Programmiersprachen kennen, viel zu flach und erzählt einem Dinge, die man eh schon weiß und/oder ohne viel Mühe aus bekanntem Wissen ableiten kann.

Also weder Fisch noch Fleisch, aber, wie gesagt, für die ersten Schritte eine ganz nette Einführung in Flex.

[Erik · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent book with solid explanations of the foundations. By the end, you'll be capable of building a functional app. Some of the sections are a bit tough to follow, but the reader should be able to figure them out with a little bit of re-reading and trial and error. At the sticker price, I would have liked to have gotten a little deeper into the material, but the book IS titled "Learning Flex 3" and is obviously only intended as a book for someone new to Flex.

[TK Keanini · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book among all the others on the topic sticks out because it is aesthetically pleasing to read. The page layout is beautiful and when you read a lot of the technical stuff, you appreciate these features.
This is a great book if you are just starting out with Flex Builder.

[cloudsniffer · Rating 3 out of 5]

The book itself is great if you need to learn about Flex. But don't learn about it unless someone requires you to. This technology is outdated and nowadays used mostly in old, big projects in which it would be too much of an investment to switch over to angular.