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Learning Flex 3
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Learning Flex 3

by Alaric Cole
June 2008
Beginner content levelBeginner
304 pages
9h 26m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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PREFACE

A lot of software developers cut their teeth on learning COBOL, Pascal, or one of those other programming languages that have stuck around for years. I didn’t learn programming that way. I didn’t take computer science courses in school. I studied anthropology.

Being a developer was not something I imagined I would ever do for a living. I did enjoy creating graphics and building websites, though, and I supported myself through school doing just that. I found that I wanted to create some fancy animated content for a website, so I decided to spend a weekend and learn the Flash IDE. I was too cheap to buy a good book, so I spent a lot of time perusing the included documentation. Hours later, I figured out how to animate a line drawing I had made. Ecstatic, I dove through the documentation, learning more and more. What started as a weekend experiment turned into a weekly passion, as I slowly progressed from simple timeline animations into scripting.

Flash was cool. I could take text and render it as a graphic, something I couldn’t do with regular old HTML and JavaScript (DHTML). It also empowered me to build applications on the Web that were not possible at the time with DHTML. I could get data from a remote computer such as the weather forecast and display it right in my Flash content, with complete control over the look and feel. I could have a user send an email through Flash without having to refresh the web page. I could display a photo gallery on my site, rotating the photos, ...

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