Our latest installment of Learning Flex From Scratch on InsideRIA tries to explain the nature of conditional statements and looping blocks of code in ActionScript 3.0. Once again, I turned to my trusty companions for information: Colin Moock's Essential ActionScript 3.0, the Adobe live docs, Wikipedia, and of course, Google Talk incessantly pinging my mentor-Adam Flater.
Given that I am learning Flex as I go, and that we are determined to put up a new post each week, it's really important that i have lots of quality information at my disposal at all times. Thankfully, I do. Adam's help is absolutely indispensable, and his patience with my newbie questions deserves special mention.
As far as those resources I've come across on my own, I would say Essential ActionScript 3.0 and the Adobe live docs have been most helpful, at least for these last few posts. One thing I recently found helpful is the ActionScript 3.0 language reference. This is handy for any developer I'm sure, but for someone trying to get a handle on the language it really makes sense of the many sometimes confusing language components. Also, Colin Moock's website has got some really great resources. He's got a lecture series about ActionScript, and his notes are available to check out. It's just an outline with no detail on the included topics, (for details, read Essential ActionScript 3.0) but it really can help to see what the important areas are when you're first learning the language.
That's all for now, I've got to go study up on collections and arrays!
