the curriculum

im going to get into my curriculum a bit so that i can remind myself what i wanted to do, from the beginning, and see how that changes over time.

week 1
a. read Programming Flex by Chafic Kazoun and Joey Lott
b. take the first set of lessons on actionscript from lynda.com

week 2
a. continue reading and re-reading the book above
b. wrap up on actionscript videos from lynda.com (easily the hardest part for me to pickup, being that i was more of a designer forever, and not a programmer in the oop sense of programming. im more of a coldfusion developer who can design as well)

week 3
a. Flex 2: Developing Rich Client Applications class at figleaf this is a two day class
that delves into the basics of flex development
b. build out my first little application. i want to make a simple CRUD system that i will eventually take into my day job (www.navtrak.net) and implement that as part of an effort to upgrade some backend systems.

week 4
a. continue reading and going over course material and working lots and lots of actionscript classes to become components for that backend app.

week 5
a. christmas :) forget geek stuff for a week

week 6
a. more work on backend components and loads of interface work. mxml i think will be the easy part for me, i think the bane of my flex existence will be actionscript.

week 7
a. another two day class @ figleaf, this time Flex 2: Dashboard Applications
b. back to back! thats right, another class at figleaf the same week: Flex 2: Programming the Visual Experience

this is good for now... this will keep me plenty busy for some time.

i hope to have examples of what im doing up here shortly. although most of the code ive done so far is too tiny to really get into it :)