Adobe Flex 4: Training from the Source

I got this book directly after taking a classroom-based training class from one of the authors (Matt Boles), which was also very good. The book is well written and interesting: I was able to read through it in large chunks at a time, just following along with the example project files.While I'm giving this book 5 stars, let me qualify that somewhat with a couple of points:- This book is aimed at people who are new to Flex, or are moving from Flex 3. It is a teach-through-example-style book, where you learn by doing things hands on. It's quite effective, as far as that goes.- If you have experience in Flex 4, and are trying to study for the ACE Flex 4 exam, I wouldn't recommend this book AS A SOLE REFERENCE FOR STUDYING. It seems like a lot of questions on the exam are straight out of the ASDoc ActionScript 3/Flex 4 API reference. I'm currently building a set of flashcards out of the API reference. Wish there was a study guide book as well.Minor complaint: The Kindle formatting (I assume this is a kindle formatting issue) for this book is a little weak, mainly the numbered items seemed to have repeated numbers for subsections within those numbers. So item "6." would have seven or eight "6."s, one for each subsection. Other than that it was surprisingly well-formatted, for a technical book in Kindle.

This book is really good. I am a ColdFusion developer of 12 years and needed a book on Flex that made sense for to me. It helped me break the old way of thinking, sending a request to a server for changes, when approaching Flex development. This book gives you an explanation of what you are writing is doing. It is not just a bunch of examples that do neat things without explanations. This book helped me take the jump from web application development thinking to Flex development methodology.I reccommend this book to web app developers with little or nounderstanding of flex. It is not an OOP book but does touch on the OOP concepts you should learn for actionscript.I would have liked more OOP instruction but that was not the focus of this book. I supplimented this book with Actionscript 3.0 for Flash and Flex to meet my ActionScript questions.

Well, I first have to said that I had a deep experience with Adobe Flex 3 in a advance project, now I bought this book in order to just get with Flex 4 new features, I would say that this book is a nice book for people newbies with Flex but my case I would wanted something more advance, hopefully the Volume 2 is for skill level. Still is a worthy book to have if you consider yourself as professional Flex developer or aim a certification.

I bought Volume 1 although I probably didn't need to, just to make sure I would be ready for Volume 2, which I pre-ordered last November. I finally got tired of waiting, so sent an email to the publisher asking when Volume 2 would be released. Got an answer from Peachpit Press that Volume 2 has been cancelled. I'm not a happy camper.

The sample content that is used in the book as examples is not included in the text of the book. There are no links to download the sample application that the book relies heavily upon - so... if you buy the Kindle version - you will not be able to follow along with the lessons.

The self paced training offered in "Adobe Flex 4, Training From The Source" is outstanding. It offers a clear and concise introduction to Flex programming concepts with extensive hands-on exercises. Even a seasoned developer like myself has found it informative and the pace of learning is adequate to keep me from getting bored.

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It is very clear and easy to follow. The exercises worked. It is a good book to have on the shell.