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Part of the Adobe Training from the Source series, the official curriculum from Adobe, developed by experienced trainers. Using project-based tutorials, this book/CD volume is designed to teach the techniques needed to create sophisticated, professional-level projects. Each book includes a CD that contains all the files used in the lessons, plus completed projects for comparison. In the course of the book, the reader will build several Web applications using Flex Builder incorporating MXML and ActionScript 3.0. This title covers the component framework for Rich Internet Applications, Adobe Flex 3.0. New Flex 3 features covered in this edition are: the advanced DataGrid, Data Connectivity Wizards, Modularizing the Flex application, and options for deploying your Flex project with AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime).
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Part of the Adobe Training from the Source series, the official curriculum from Adobe, developed by experienced trainers. Using project-based tutorials, this book/CD volume is designed to teach the techniques needed to create sophisticated, professional-level projects. Each book includes a CD that contains all the files used in the lessons, plus completed projects for comparison. In the course of the book, the reader will build several Web applications using Flex Builder incorporating MXML and ActionScript 3.0. This title covers the component framework for Rich Internet Applications, Adobe Flex 3.0. New Flex 3 features covered in this edition are: the advanced DataGrid, Data Connectivity Wizards, Modularizing the Flex application, and options for deploying your Flex project with AIR (Adobe Integrated Runtime).
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
If, like me, you like the idea of leveraging the Flash/Flex technology for desktop applications and you've had a look through the Adobe online training resources but don't have a clear picture in your mind of how you would go about building a full scale application then this is the book for you. It walks you through the process of creating an online grocery store introducing the various concepts to you in a controlled and well thought through sequence. You will find yourself rewriting code as you go but this serves as an excellent way to highlight some poor practices whilst demonstrating best practice techniques. You will find that you gain in confidence as you work through the chapters needing less and less spoon feeding until you gain enough confidence to make some improvements of your own here and there. By the end, you will be eager and ready to start building your own applications.
There are a handful of mistakes in the book but none of them cause any major difficulties (apart from step 7 on page 580 of chapter 23 which should refer to the file named PrintingTask1.mxml not SortingADG.mxml - well we all make copy-and-paste errors). The accompanying disk provides before and after code for each lesson which is great if you run into difficulties or wish to skip chapters (which I would not recommend).
There are a handful of mistakes in the book but none of them cause any major difficulties (apart from step 7 on page 580 of chapter 23 which should refer to the file named PrintingTask1.mxml not SortingADG.mxml - well we all make copy-and-paste errors). The accompanying disk provides before and after code for each lesson which is great if you run into difficulties or wish to skip chapters (which I would not recommend).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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This is an amazingly good book that provides extremely good step by step processes.
Some of the steps at the beginning can seem a bit strange if you have coded Object Oriented code before, but in later chapters the flat coding style is changed into a much more OO application.
Each section gives you an initial explanation of what the chapter will teach you, as well as the estimated time that it should take. So in all there is 40+ hours of training.
The only problem that I found with the projects is that it required that you have an internet connection, to connect to all the xml files that define your catalogue of products. I corrected this by installing Apache server 2.2 on my machine and put the xml files on that server. I therefore could work through the training without constantly being connected to the web.
The xml files are not provided on the CD either (they should have been).
This book also seems to provide much more detail for its money than the "Classroom in a book" adobe series. It is twice the size too.
In all this is the best book of its kind I have read. If you are interested in learning Flex 3, then this is a great starting point.
Some of the steps at the beginning can seem a bit strange if you have coded Object Oriented code before, but in later chapters the flat coding style is changed into a much more OO application.
Each section gives you an initial explanation of what the chapter will teach you, as well as the estimated time that it should take. So in all there is 40+ hours of training.
The only problem that I found with the projects is that it required that you have an internet connection, to connect to all the xml files that define your catalogue of products. I corrected this by installing Apache server 2.2 on my machine and put the xml files on that server. I therefore could work through the training without constantly being connected to the web.
The xml files are not provided on the CD either (they should have been).
This book also seems to provide much more detail for its money than the "Classroom in a book" adobe series. It is twice the size too.
In all this is the best book of its kind I have read. If you are interested in learning Flex 3, then this is a great starting point.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
As mentioned by previous reviewers, this book is excellent, well structured, easy to follow and leads you by the hand and gently releases you as the book progresses. A lot of thought has gone into how to explain things and highlighting potential pitfalls. It really does take you through by telling you, in written english first what you are going to do eg create a private method called xyz which returns void and accepts these params. It then shows you the correct code so you learn as you go, it then explains what this code is for/does and more importantly, why it is needed.
There is quite a bit of 'write this section of code' which is then re-written later in a more re-usable manner but this is actually a great way to learn how the application is being built and then learning how to do it efficiently.
An experienced programmer may find it a bit too basic in the early stages but stick with it, it does take you right through the building of an online grocery store.
Only -ve is the latter chapters tend to be a bit thinner on explanation, however, there is no detracting from the amount you will learn from this book and more importantly, your understanding of how to really use Flex.
There is quite a bit of 'write this section of code' which is then re-written later in a more re-usable manner but this is actually a great way to learn how the application is being built and then learning how to do it efficiently.
An experienced programmer may find it a bit too basic in the early stages but stick with it, it does take you right through the building of an online grocery store.
Only -ve is the latter chapters tend to be a bit thinner on explanation, however, there is no detracting from the amount you will learn from this book and more importantly, your understanding of how to really use Flex.
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A great introduction to flex
As an experienced flash and actionscript developer, I wanted to move onto flex application development. Read more
Published on 5 Mar 2010 by Mr. Mark J. Taylor
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I am familiar to programming but new to flex. So basically I wanted to know what is available in flex and how to use it. Read more
Published on 3 Feb 2010 by M. Long
Getting into flex a breeze with this book
Having delved into Flex at version 2 and lost interest, I tried again with Version 3 and to ease my journey into the world of MXML and after some research into the literature... Read more
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A Solid Introduction to Flex
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Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source is an update to the extremely popular Adobe Flex 2: Training from the Source. Read more
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