Nicholas Sardo said
I do professional Flex Development, and have a penchant for accumulating multiple books for subjects that interest me. I found this book to be a good overview of Flex. It adequately covers all the various aspects of Flex development, and even has coverage of using various back-ends for Flex.
I would recommend it for beginning to Intermediate Flex users as a good addition to their library's.
Rosemary said
I just started reading this book, it explains the topics clearly, a good book , very well writed, worth it's price.
B. Tellez said
Great Book, I bought this right after reading Visual Quickstart Guide for Actionscript 3 and it was perfect for me as a beginner to Flex. I highly recommend this book to any beginner who is familiar with ActionScript3.
Amanda Machutta said
I purchased this book about a week ago and am very pleased with it. I actually sat at Borders with 3 different Flex 3 books and flipped through them all to see which ones would fit my needs. this was the cheapest of the 3, and also the most thorough. I'm a flex 2 developer who was looking for a good trainer on Flex3 as well as more advanced and indepth information on the framework itself. This book is great for just that. I don't know if I would recommend it to a new developer - probably a book sectioned by lessons and hands on stuff would be better for you, but if you are already a seasoned developer who is looking for MORE, this book will fit ur needs.
Only downside I did find with this book is it is FILLED with typos. Luckily they aren't in areas that are too damaging or cause the material to be overly confusing if you already know what you are doing.
Amanda
Mark Prouty said
This is a excellent good book. I am new to Flex and Actionscript 3 but not programming. I felt this book was aimed for someone like me. If you want to learn from a good teacher and his book, buy this book and get the[..]Flex3 Essential training CD. The book's author, David Gassner, also teaches that and does an outstanding job.
Flex and AS3 are comparitivly easy to learn if you have the right teacher. I have built a prototype wesbite for my company using Flex, PHP and MySql. Possibly the fastest way to get up to speed with these tools are this book and CD. I built a pretty impressive prototype application in 5 days without knowing Flex or ActionScript 3. ActionScript 3 is not that much different than any other object oriented programming tool. There was only annoying problem that you might encounter with the training CD. At one point in the training, it uses a font I dont' have and the compiler kept complaining. This happened because I initially skipped the training on CSS and later examples were based on previous ones. The problem is easy to remedy though.
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