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Book:		Programming Flex 2
Subject:		Code examples on this page not useful
Date:		2008-01-08 12:33:41
From:		Anonymous Reader
Response to: Code examples on this page
Rating: I was happy to find the code examples as well, but was irritated at how they are organized. The code examples come in the format of an archive of text files. Each text file is not named according to the chapter, section as you would expect, or even as Example 8-14 or something else useful. Instead, they have titled each file with the subject of the example, that may or may not have any correlation to the section of the book. The result is that it is very difficult to locate an example from the book. The book is great, but making the code examples so inaccessible is a real problem.

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Code examples on this page not useful, February 23 2008

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Submitted by Jeremiah [Respond | View]

I can't see how the criticism of how the example files are named chaps this person so much. If you're looking at the code examples in the book, the example file names are sensible enough.

I do agree, however, that some more consistent name correlation would have been easy to do and very useful: either print the literal filename in the book with each example, or name the files based on the section they illustrate.

Otherwise, I found the examples to be very useful, and the book was a primary resource for me to learn Flex starting from zero.

One thing that would have been helpful for me is a half a chapter dedicated to fundamental concepts of OOP. I suggest you go elsewhere first and study fundamental OOP concepts before tackling Flex. There is almost no finger hold available on Flex that does not require a conceptual understanding of OOP.