Flex 2 Essential Training
The lynda.com Online Training Library now includes a brand new set of video tutorials covering Flex 2. Flex 2 Essential Training is 4.5 hours of content presented by David Gassner, who led our Flex workshop at Flashforward2006 Seattle. The “Getting Started” chapter is free; the remaining modules are available to subscribers.
Registrants for Flashforward Austin receive up to a year-long subscription to the Online Training Library, so if you have already registered, you can check out these training videos today.
If you are interested in learning about Flex 2 and have not yet registered for Flashforward2006 Austin, you really should. Not only will you gain access to these new videos, but the Austin conference will feature over a dozen sessions covering Flex 2, ActionScript 3 and Apollo — and they are not scheduled concurrently, so you can attend all of them!
Press release follows…
lynda.com Publishes First Video-Based Training
Available for Adobe Flex 2
Ojai, CA, June 29, 2006 - lynda.com announces today its addition of Flex 2 Essential Training with Adobe-certified instructor David Gassner, to the lynda.com Online Training Libraryâ„¢. The training is delivered in QuickTime movie format, and is 4.5 hours long.
Coordinating with the release of Adobe® Flex™ 2 and Flash™ Professional 9 ActionScript 3.0 Preview, Flex 2 Essential Training is the perfect training complement to the new versions of these rich Internet application-building tools.
Adobe Flex 2 is a powerful application development solution for creating and delivering cross-platform rich Internet applications (RIAs) within the enterprise and across the web. In Flex 2 Essential Training, veteran instructor and author David Gassner teaches how to use Flex 2 to quickly create personalized, multimedia-rich, Ajax-style applications that improve user experience and can reach virtually anyone on any platform by leveraging the ubiquitous Adobe Flash Player.
For free online samples of Flex 2 Essential Training and more detailed product information, please visit
http://movielibrary.lynda.com/html/modPage.asp?ID=248.
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July 27th, 2006 at 12:21 pm
May I be the 1st to say that the disc you are promoting here is a glossed over lame inroduction to Flash. No carnigorm…are you serious. What real web developer will get anything out of this 4.5 hours?
July 27th, 2006 at 2:57 pm
This is intended to be introductory material.
If you look at the pattern suggested by other topics in the Online Training Library, “Essential Training” comes first, usually followed by “Beyond the Basics” and then a variety of topic-specific titles. Anyone who has the basics under his or her belt already, and is comfortable with the material presented here, will of course be better-served by future releases.
No one thinks that 4.5 hours is sufficient to teach everything there is to know about Flex 2, but for a beginner there’s little sense starting in the middle!
At the Flashforward conference we’ll have both beginner and advanced topics on offer, FYI.
January 18th, 2007 at 9:59 am
David, I find your comment to be a bit harsh. I am a faithful subscriber to Lynda.com and find their video tutorials top-notch and incredibly helpful in my pursuit to understanding Flex 2 and various other programs. Personally I find lots of gems (”cairigorm”) in every lesson I watch.
The “Essential Training” was absolutely essential for me. I have contacted Lynda.com and requested further training for Flex 2, which they have since released under the title “Beyond the Basics.” I look forward to further releases that will help equip me to do what I want to do with Flex 2. Sorry to here that you were a bit disappointed. Instead of hurling insults why not simply express your desire for more in depth training. I am a firm believer of “Ask and you shall receive!” Try giving it a shot. :)