Flex: Tutorial and a Book

By Kuba Friday September 4, 2009

The first book about Flex 4 is already being written by Peter Amstrong. He is working on a simple Flex 4 beginner book called Hello! It wont bore you with technical details about new Flex framework. It will be really good intro to get up and running with Flex 4. Peter shows the reader how to build their own up called socialStalker (it’s a Yahoo! maps and twitter mushup).

You can download the first chapter as pdf here.

DESCRIPTION

With Flex 4 you can easily add color and life to your web applications by introducing dynamic user features, slick transitions, and eye-catching animations. Flex also provides powerful data handling capabilities so you can build industrial-strength applications. And it’s open source, so you can get started without forking over a lot of your hard-earned cash.

We think it should be just as much fun to learn Flex as it is to use Flex. Hello! Flex 4 shows you everything you need to know to get started with Flex 4 without bogging you down in obscure detail or academic edge cases. In this entertaining, hands-on book, you’ll quickly move from Hello World into the techniques you’ll need to use Flex effectively.

You’ll start by progressing through 26 self-contained workshop items, which include everything from small one-page examples, to a 3D rotating haiku, to building a Connect Four game. Finally, in the last chapter you’ll build a full Flex application called ‘SocialStalkr’: an interesting mashup of Twitter and Yahoo Maps that lets you ‘stalk’ your friends by showing specially formatted Twitter tweets on a Yahoo map.

WHAT’S INSIDE:

Create engaging animations and transitions

Handle and manage user input

Access and display data

Communicate effectively with the server

Build a complete Flex 4 application

Whether you’re a weekend developer or you have great plans for Flex, Hello! Flex 4 is a great place to start.

New video tutorial was released by adobe TV, it’s called drawing lines in Flex. The tutorial shows you how to build simple drawing application, that you can use to draw on your desktop :) For more details visit Technoracle!