360flexpress Hands-On – Getting down to the wire for great training!
Posted on | November 3, 2009 | Comments Off
Some of you may be wondering what type of application your gonna build this weekend. While the application can’t be too complex since we only have a weekend, we also want to keep it relevant enough to teach you some great skills.
One thing I’ve never liked about a lot of training out there is that while you build pieces of an app, you don’t build the whole thing. There’s always things skipped, code prewritten for you, so you never get that continuous feel of going from nothing to finished product. That will not be the case here.
We will be building a simple survey app that asks questions and displays the results. Since it is November, I thought it would be fun to incorporate that in to app. Here’s the splash screen:
Splash Screen
There’s no styling in the screen shot. (Hey, I don’t want to give it all away before you show up!) But you will learn how to not only build the app, but then add styling and cool animation effects that we know and love Flex for.
The core concepts that will be taught are ones you will (or should be) using every day in your Flex development job. You will learn how to layout applications, break it up in to components, reuse those components to speed up development.
I’m very excited and am probably creating far too many labs for us to work through, but better to have too much than not enough. Don’t worry, the labs work will be staggered. We’ll touch an area, leave room for improvement, then move to the next. This way we’re guaranteed to get a working app that we can then go back later and add some more finishing touches.
On Sunday, we’ll then take this app and recreate it in 3 different frameworks: Cairngorm, PureMVC and Mate. You’ll learn how not only to build an app, but then also how to add a framework to help ease further development.
For those of you already registered, it’s gonna be a blast! For those not registered, hurry up there’s still time! Register now for the low price of $149 for both days.
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