Getting Started with Flex 3: An Adobe Developer Library Pocket Guide for Developers

by Emily Kim and Jack Herrington

Discover how easy RIA development can be with this one-of-a-kind handbook from the Adobe Developer Library. Several clear, step-by-step mini-tutorials teach you about web services, event handling, designing user interfaces with reusable components, and more. After finishing this guide, you'll be able to build Flash applications ranging from widgets to full-featured RIAs using the Flex SDK and Flex Builder 3.0. With Getting Started with Flex 3,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0596520646
• ISBN13: 9780596520649
• Release Date: July 2008
• Publisher: Adobe Developer Library
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.5" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

A must for anyone dealing with the program and wants to do more

Flex is short for flexible, a title the program Flex 3 rightfully deserves. "Getting Started with Flex 3: An Adobe Developer Library Pocket Guide" is a handbook filled with all one needs to gain a complete understanding and mastery of Flex 3. Covering user interfaces, controls both commercial and open source, integration, and so much more that this little program can do. "Getting Started With Flex 3" is a must for anyone dealing with the program and wants to do more.

An excellent book to start with

I am new to Adobe Flex development, but I have been a Microsoft web programmer for many years. I really enjoyed this book; it's an excellent intro to the world of Flex development. I love the length of the chapters they are just long enough to finish in a quick 20 min break during the day. The authors do an excellent job demonstrating what can be done with the technology. The examples are simple but well thought out and well written. They start off by showing the reader real world applications already in place on the web. In the following chapters he provides examples that introduce some of the controls available in Flex. The examples are labels, buttons, checkboxes and datagrids just to highlight a few. One chapter walks the reader through creating a Runner's Calculator. The last chapter contains a nice list of websites, blogs and community resources to get you into the developer community. If you are new to Flex this is an excellent book to start with it's both informative and a quick read.