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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).

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Good for getting your feet wet:

Adobe Flex 3: Training from the Source is definitely a good start to learning Flex. The book goes through a tutorial style method of creating an online shopping cart. While I did learn a lot about how Flex functions, and the basics of actionscript, this isn't the end-all, be-all Flex book.
One annoying thing about the book is the introduction of a new concept, and the author will tell you right off the bat that it is bad practice. They later show you the correct way to create/write what they want you... more info

Mixed feelings ...:

This book has a lot of information and techniques in it that are core to learning Flex. However, in the end it makes a poor reference book. The tutorial is really creating three different applications which work as one, it is not extremely complex, but definitely not simple either.
Sometimes a chapter will have you working on three different concepts for each of the applications, but in the end I would rather see individual chapters working on each application individually. It's a bit odd, because you... more info

The ultimate Flex 3 code-along tutorial:

I've worked through countless code-along tutorial style books for a variety of languages. Many of them move you along at a pace that feels at best uncomfortable, lacking explanations and not intuitive to what the target reader might be thinking/wondering as they go along. Not this one. The authors, despite their extensive expertise, write to the reader (that is, someone learning Flex). Instead of lading down the early chapters with theory, and then blitzkrieging a sample app at the end (expecting that... more info

an awful experience:

I'm still slogging through this, one of the worst-written books in the history of technical writing. What makes it so awful is that instead just telling you about some code and what it does, they literally tell you in verbal terms what to write for each lline of code: The majority of the book is comprised of this sort of stuff:
"Step 11: While still in OrderConf.mxml, locate the Delivery Date form item. Change the so the text property calls the format() method of the orderFormat... more info

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