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| Learning Flex 3: Getting up to Speed with Rich Internet Applications (Adobe Developer Library) | 
| Author: Alaric Cole
Publisher: Adobe Dev Library
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 8953
Format: Illustrated
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0596517327
Dewey Decimal Number: 006.76
EAN: 9780596517328
ASIN: 0596517327
Publication Date: June 25, 2008
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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.
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Thorough, yet easy to read September 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Alaric Cole succeeds in this book where many others fail. He manages to keep the pace of learning brisk, while providing adequate (and brief!) examples that clearly demonstrate his point without creating more questions. It's easy to read while still covering subject depth.
Great Book to Learn Flex Quick August 14, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Learning Flex 3: Getting up to Speed with Rich Internet Applications (Adobe Developer Library) is a fabulous book for anyone who wants to learn how to use Flex 3 effectively. It not only covers the basics of Flex 3, it describes several skills that you will need to develop RIA's. The author Alaric Cole does a great job explaining how to use the tools in Flex. I often get a book that is meant to teach you how to use an application, and find myself scratching my head when I create a project from the book and it doesn't seem to work the way the author describes it (often a step is left out, or 'assumed'. Every tutorial/project I worked through in this book worked great, and I actually understood how to apply what I learned to my own projects. The subtitle of the book is 'Getting Up To Speed With Rich Internet Applications' and that is exactly what this book does for a Flex Designer or Developer. I have used Flex for about 1.5 years now, and feel that I have a pretty firm grasp on Flex and Flash, but I still learned quite a bit from this book.
Cream of the Crop for Learning Flex 3 August 11, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
No books cover everything but looking at the title of the book it is aimed at teaching people new to Flex 3. (Or people who didn't get a good foundation in another book on the topic.)
I have seen few books over the years that rise to the level of this book. It is great in both scope and in simplicity. You will learn to both create and understand the heart of Flex 3 with this book and with no personal gain for saying this, stop reading reviews and buy this book today!
(FYI... I am the author of ColdFusion 8 Developer Tutorial )
A great beginning to intermediate Flex 3 book August 11, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've worked with Flash and ActionScript for a few years, but I'm new to Flex so I purchased three Flex books and I found this one to be the best one. I like how the author has you build smaller applications that work by themselves but also adds more features to them as the book progresses.
There are some minor code issues, but he answered my questions on his website which is one of the best book websites I've seen [...]. All of the source files and the working applications can be viewed on his site.
I also really enjoy the layout of the new Learning series that O'Reilly has been putting out (similar to the Learning ActionScript 3 book). The color coding and pictures are a nice change from the majority of black and white technical books.
Since the focus of this book is Flex and MXML, newer programmers will need to supplement this book with an ActionScript book once they start to build more advanced applications.
Highly recommended for those who are new to Flex.
VERY VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!! July 29, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Are you just getting started in using Flex? If you are, then this book is for you. Author Alaric Cole, has done an outstanding job of writing a book that is designed for anyone new to software development.
Cole, begins by jumping right into the basics of using Flex and Flex Builder. Next, the author helps you get acquainted with Design mode and shows you how to build an application visually. Then, he looks at code that was generated from Design mode and shows you how to write your own. The author continues by showing you how to get going with this powerful and simple programming language. Next, he discusses what events are and how too use them in your application. Then, the author will show you some of the powerful features of Flex. He continues by explaining how to lay out your applications. Next, the author will discuss the Form container and show you how to create rich experiences with Forms and user input. Then, he shows you how to use data that's created within your MXML code, or even data that's spread across the web. The author continues by showing you how to structure your application by providing a set of user-selectable views. Next, he discusses the concept of view states, which let you easily design the flow of your applications. Then, the author shows you how incredibly easy it is to apply visual effects to your components with simple MXML. He continues by showing you how to customize every visual aspect of your Flex applications, making your applications truly custom and unique. Finally, the authors shows you how to take your applications and show them to the world.
This most excellent book provides a step-by-step tutorial through all aspects of Flex development, from familiarizing your self with the right tools to learning basic features of ActionScript and MXML, to sharing your completed work with others. More importantly, the author chose topics based on what he felt empowered you to begin development without overwhelming you.
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